You Probably Didn’t Hear that Venezuela Was Again Ranked the Happiest Country in South America

[Peace Patriot]

35. Huh? Cuba "the jewel of Latin America"--under the horrible Batista regime?

What a screwed up perspective you have!

And now, Cuba is "the greatest failure in the history of mankind"?

Good grief! How about Iraq? How about Afghanistan? How about Syria? How about Colombia? How about Honduras?

Your perspective is beyond distorted--it is unreal.

Cubans now have universal free health care, in one of the most highly praised medical systems in the world. They have universal free education through college and graduate school. And what they DON'T have is the sheer ugliness of Miama development, not to mention its mafia politics and crime. The Batista gang despoiled Miami, as they would have done to Cuba if they had not been booted out by the people of Cuba. Cuba IS the "jewel of Latin America," now, BECAUSE the greedbags and the fascists were evicted. It has the most beautiful unspoiled beaches in the world!

Cuba now has a lot of advantages over our despoiled country, and their adherence to basic human rights--food, medical care, education, economic fairness--has made them influential throughout Latin America and the world. The U.S. has become a pariah, with its constant wars, bullying and economic exploitation, and it has become a disgrace in many ways--the highest imprisonment rate in the world, for instance, with our completely uncivilized executions--while little Cuba is respected and admired. The U.S. exports guns and crap food. Cuba exports doctors and literacy programs.

"The greatest failure in the history of mankind"? The tragic truth is that U.S. democracy is "the greatest failure in the history of mankind."

Billionaires stuffing their pockets with more money, while our people fall into poverty, and lose their homes, because of no jobs? That is not success. That is failure. Big, bullying war machine? That is not success. That is failure. Cuts in public services, deteriorating school systems, bankrupt towns, while the banksters clean up on our tax money and our multi-million dollar senators play tiddlywinks. Gawd. We are in so much trouble, and our demoralized people don't have a tenth of spirit of Cubans in Cuba, who know how to band together in difficult times. We make not like their political system but they sure have gotten a lot of things right, while our behemoth country eats itself alive and our people flounder around helplessly, and can't even get controls on ammunition clips that mow down our kindergartners at six bullets per second! And every several weeks, another American goes bonkers and starts shooting dozens of innocent people at random, leaving trails of blood across our land.

Money does not equal success. Mansions and fancy cars do not equal success. Success, in a country, is about COMMUNITY. And on that kind of success--real success--Cuba seems to have it all over us.

As for Venezuela: The UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean disagrees with you. They designated Venezuela "THE most equal country in Latin America." How is that for "sustained change"? The Millennium Project disagrees with you. Venezuela has met ALL of its Millennium goals--education, literacy, health care, poverty reduction and other indicators, all achieved ahead of schedule. The Carter Center disagrees with you. Jimmy Carter recently said that Venezuela has "the best election system in the world." That was an achievement of the Venezuelan people and the Chavez/Maduro government, which invited the Carter Center and all the other reputable election monitoring groups to help Venezuela set up an honest, transparent election system. The people of Venezuela disagree with you, and they would know--they have not only voted for the Chavez/Maduro government, time and again, they recently voted to throw out all but four governors in favor of chavista governors of the individual states. They have also indicated their own sense of well-being and future prospects in the Gallup Well-being poll, rating their own country FIFTH IN THE WORLD on those criteria. And they now have topped the "Happiness" poll in Latin America.

Your comments are uninformed and your perspective is so far right it falls down the "rabbit hole" and joins the Mad Tea Party.