Congratulations Fidel!!

[ELVIS]

Originally posted by Angel
Cuba also has one of the best education systems.

Is that why their MD's have to go back to school basically from scratch when they come here ??

[Angel]

I would imagine that it's for the same reasons that foreign doctors coming to Canada have to do the same, unless they are from the USA, or a nation that is a member of the Commonwealth.

I should have stipulated I'm only talking about primary and secondary education. I don't know enough about their post-secondary system to be able to comment on it.

[ELVIS]

What exactly do you know about their primary and secondary education systems ??

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Angel
Cuba also has one of the best education systems.

I plan on visiting that fine country next year.

Be careful though Kentucky, they're very jealous that we can enjoy those fine white beaches, but they can't.

What good is education if you can't use your ideas learned to express an opinion?

What good is reading if the book shops are bear?

[Little_Skittles]

Cuba ain't so bad....fidel is actually pretty good and guys our government must think so too coz we trading with them.

[FORD]

Originally posted by ELVIS
Is that why their MD's have to go back to school basically from scratch when they come here ??

Any doctor from a foreign country has to do that. My dad's doctor was a practicing MD in China and when he moved to America, he had to go back to school all over again.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Little_Skittles
Cuba ain't so bad....fidel is actually pretty good and guys our government must think so too coz we trading with them.

No, actually we are not trading with them. The anti-Castro Cuban lobby prevents us from selling our goods to Cuba as part of a stupid embargo.

The irony here is that if we actually did send our goods to the 'Socialist Paradise,' Castro's regime would collapse like East Germany's did the minute it was not propped up by the Russians.

They don't know how much fun capitalism really is. But then again, it seems like we NEED Castro as a bogeyman, and to cause a destabilization by dying so we can sweep in and dominate the country when it is in turmoil as opposed to a Cuba that maintains independence by a gradual transitioning to democracy.

[Little_Skittles]

WHAT? We aren't trading with them? excuse me my local paper just ran an ad that said kansas wheat going to cuba don't even say we trading with them. I want some cuban cigars for my wheat.

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by Little_Skittles
WHAT? We aren't trading with them? excuse me my local paper just ran an ad that said kansas wheat going to cuba don't even say we trading with them. I want some cuban cigars for my wheat.

Cuban cigars are highly illegal (and much coveted). The wheat you are talking about being traded, and you are right, was a highly controversial deal I believe (if past events are indicative). But it was politically justified as food probably, but we do not send Cuba any consumer goods. Have you seen the cars they drive? It's like a scene from GREASE or HAPPY DAYS for Christ's sakes!

[Nickdfresh]

Originally posted by FORD
Just a little reminder about ol' Fidel though....

He actually knocked on our doors first, begging the Eisenhower administration for help. The BCE-corporatist CIA advised Ike against it, because the corporations were doing well under the right wing repressive Batista regime.

Castro could have been a US ally, but the BCE slammed the door in his face. Kruschev seized the opportunity to get his foot in the door of the Western Hemisphere - which of course boosted the Cold War - and by extention the military industrial complex, so it was a win-win for the corporatists either way.

That is true. Cuba is much like Vietnam in that sense.

[diamondD]

Cuban cigars aren't that great. I don't see what the big fuss is about them. And I really don't understand how anyone could call Cuba a fine country without admitting they are an admirer of Communism.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by kentuckyklira
I ´ll dare oppose your point of view. He´s a teddybear compared to Pinochet. Plus, Castro cares about his people, even if his methods might be dubious. Pinochet just cared about himself and his buddies!

That's why so many cubans try to escape to the US...

Cheers! :bottle:

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by Angel
Cuba also has one of the best education systems.

I plan on visiting that fine country next year.

Be careful though Kentucky, they're very jealous that we can enjoy those fine white beaches, but they can't.

Jealous, how can that be??:confused:

After all, they live in the "Land of the Free" and we don´t!

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
What good is education if you can't use your ideas learned to express an opinion?

What good is reading if the book shops are bear?

You are allowed to express your opinion in Cuba.

But if you do so in the name of a US funded organisation then you go to jail and that´s OK with me. I mean US administrations have supported torrorist actions against Cuban civilians in the past, as well as attempts to assassinate Cuba´s leaders.

I doubt American´s "Freedom of Speech" is so free that they could accept funding by Al Qaeda unpunished!

[kentuckyklira]

Originally posted by ImapusSylicker
That's why so many cubans try to escape to the US...

Cheers! :bottle:

Ever consider that Cubans could be "escaping" Cuba for the same reasons Mexicans are "escaping" Mexico, Guatemalans are "escaping" Guatemala etc. etc. etc.??

Get rid of your bias and we might have ourself a real discussion!