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To: Suma who wrote (174420)	11/7/2005 7:22:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

China is heading to capitalism in practice though the communist party is still in power. Castro's form of Communism if it is that... had to be dictatorial in the beginning but I think it is much more open now. For me what has been important is that there is no poverty any longer and that there is no illiteracy.. and finally that all of the Cubans have health care. Cuba is an impoverished hellhole. It still imprisons people for political reasons. October 23, 2005 - 11 of 40 members of the Cuban National Choir visiting Canada defected. These things get little/no press attention. BTW the US is the biggest supplier of food to Cuba. In 2000, Congress allowed food sales. Cubans I know who escaped were all wealthy, had everything they needed or wanted and did resent giving it all up when Castro took over.. They fled...They hate that he took over their plantations and their money. 2 million Cubans left soon after Castro took power. If a country with about 10 million people had 2 million wealthy, it was pretty amazing.