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secondwind

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4. The man is so full of himself. We were in Havana last April, and

Reply to dipsydoodle (Original post)

Sat Feb 4, 2012, 09:07 PM

Feb 2012

we were greeted by our tour operator as follows:

"Welcome to Cuba, the largest prison in the world." The people are suffering immensely, and paid very little to subsist.

Education is free for everyone, but there is no way to practice what you have learned. It is not a rarity to see a physicist driving a bus, or an engineer running a kitchen in a Jewish temple (we met one such woman).

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