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Marksman_91

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12. You still didn't answer the point I was trying to make

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 06:50 PM

Sep 2014

There's a reason why people try to flee Cuba and not the other way around, DESPITE all those services that I'm not denying they exist. How about you take a trip there someday, live like a Cuban citizen and all that. Don't tell em you're a tourist, especially an American one, or else they'll treat you like a king. The same can't be said for the citizens, unfortunately.

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Exported to Venezuela, miserable Cuban doctors clamor to get into U.S. [View all] Zorro Sep 2014 OP

Why are they miserable? Who says wanting to emigrate to America means your former life was Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #1

Try reading the article before posting Zorro Sep 2014 #2

Since your title and your excerpt from the article bear no resemblance, no thanks. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #3

You're welcome to stay ignorant then Zorro Sep 2014 #4

I'm actually wondering if you've ever stepped foot in Cuba and experienced how citizens live there Marksman_91 Sep 2014 #6

Cuba does have free medical care, free education, all the doctors are trained for nada, and much Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #8

$20/month and your how you live your life is at the discretion of the state n/t Bacchus4.0 Sep 2014 #9

Neither is true, but I see inconvienent truths again being ignored because of comfortable lies. Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #10

Well the doctors are leaving for the US or other countries via Colombia Bacchus4.0 Sep 2014 #11

You still didn't answer the point I was trying to make Marksman_91 Sep 2014 #12

They didn't pay them well to start--now with inflation they can barely MADem Sep 2014 #5

They are slaves n/t Bacchus4.0 Sep 2014 #7