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To: TimF who wrote (138464)	8/2/2001 11:40:15 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582684

"Yes everyone is equally poor, except those that Castro favors who do pretty well. I don't think I would count this situation as being in Castro's favor." Actually you can. Those who are favored do better, but it isn't the order of magnitudes that is more typical in that region. Everyone more or less has access to health care, they more or less get enough to eat, and they more or less have access to education. And that is very atypical in that region. Again, Castro is no shining light of benevolence, but he hasn't been a Duvalier either. The average Cuban can get by in life without being a prostitute, a pimp or a gangster, something that was very difficult under Batista. Sure, the Cubans in the US for the most part didn't have those problems under Batista, but they weren't average. They were the land owners, doctors, lawyers and business owners, the ones who were favored. Their viewpoint is going to colored somewhat by that. Things were very bad for the average person under Batista, that is why Castro was able to hold things together in the early days. People put up with it because they remembered the way things were.