Happy 50th Anniversary Cuba

[malaise]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7775127.stm
Despite its economic difficulties, Cuba has stuck to its revolutionary ideals of education, welfare and healthcare.

Literacy and infant mortality rates are more in line with the US than Latin America.

Major expansion in higher education means more than half of 18 to 24-year-olds study at university level.

[tsuki]

1. Interesting. Son bought me Havana Nocturne by T. J. English for

Christmas. It is about the mob and pre-revolutionary Cuba. I am enjoying it.

[malaise]

3. I'll check that out

Thanks

[tsuki]

11. Not a difficult read, but it has all those names I remember from

my youth, Lansky, Luciano, Genovese, Trafficante, Raft, Sinatra. I did not realize that the Mob influence was a pervasive as it was. They were setting up owning their own nation.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Here is a great fact filled thread "Cuba: Before and After the 1959 Revolution"

Much more to Cuba than most Americans could know (seeing that Americans are travel banned by their own gov).

Cuba: Before and After the 1959 Revolution
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4653650

[malaise]

4. Thanks

I posted on that thread.
Viva Fidel!

[EFerrari]

5. One of my earliest memories is listening to the radio when

Castro entered Havana. My family was not wildly pro- or contra- but very interested. I doubt any of them in that kitchen expected that fifty years on, Cuba would be celebrating an anniversary. :)

[Billy Burnett]

6. One of my earliest memories in Cuba was listening to Florida radio in Havana.

TV too. It was something that kind of shocked me, I hadn't realized that they could. :dunce:

Believe me, Cubans hear ALL of the frothing-at-the-mouth anti Castro blather gushing out over the airwaves from Miami.

:hi:

[malaise]

7. My parents were frothing at the mouth but my favorite aunt

was delighted.

[EFerrari]

8. Happy New Year, Billy!

:hi:

[Billy Burnett]

10. Happy returns, sfexpat.

:hi:

I'm hitting the road tonight for a long while, so I won't have much time to lollygag around DU.

Keep an eye open for our pal.

:* :*

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. K&R

[Billy Burnett]

12. How about another ...

:kick: