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In reply to the discussion: Obama says current U.S. policy towards Cuba ‘doesn’t make sense’ [View all]Judi Lynn
(164,122 posts)have been planning to take over Cuba all over again as soon as humanly possible, just like the good 'ol days prior to the revolution.
In South Florida, using funds provided by the US Congress with US taxpayers' hard earned money, they've been creating their own plans for completely dismantling the Cuban government and destroying the universal health care which has made the Cuban people healthier than anywhere else in the Americas, their universal total education system, known world-wide, and their steady progress against the unbelievable poverty which imprisoned Cuban workers in periods of no work at all, then seasonal work either planting or harvesting sugar cane, or tobacco. Cuba was once a slavery based economy, and the oligarchs didn't grow food for the island, they grew sugar and tobacco for their European and US American customers' households.
The poor continued to live without food, medicine, plumbing, clean water, any decent shelter, couldn't even grow their own food as they didn't have any access to land. Some tried to grow food in the space along the sides of railroad tracks and the police would always raid them.
As Mika has pointed out, a large number of the Cuban poor lived perennially with intestinal parasites.
They do NOT want Cuba to be forced to return to the days Cubans REALLY didn't have a chance, and the economy really DID revolve around the tourists, and people in other countries, when Cuba was known as the "Whorehouse of the Caribbean."
Even the U.S. Navy used Cuba as a "Rest and Recreation" spot.
Here is a compilation of various attractions in Cuba to which US Americans migrated for entertainment prior to the revolution:
It was all material published in the 1950's, and it's really almost comical now, yet tacky!
http://cuban-exile.com/menu1/%21entertain.html
Cuba doesn't want this back, along with the fast-food restaurants which have taken over throughout the Central American countries, and in South America, along with the pollution, congestion, traffic.