WHERE IS THIS? THE BUENA VISTA COMMUNIST HELL

Janet Levy,
Los Angeles
“From the very beginning, the dictatorship has made it very difficult to “impact” the population by astutely employing many tactics, including:
  • Establishing physical and psychological torture and terror to subjugate and divide the population,
  • Destroying the civil society and making the individual totally dependent on the state, and
  • Cutting off the population from all independent sources of information and replacing them with its own propaganda and misinformation.”
     
     
    The answer is Communist Cuba.
     
    Look at the startling facts below from Cuban-American author Humberto Fontova to see how drastically Cuba changed after the Castro revolution. This could and IS happening in America.
     
    Some facts about Cuba:
     
    1) Cuba, a country with more telephones and televisions in 1958 than half of Europe, has fewer internet connections than Uganda.
     
    2) In the 1950’s the average farm-wage in Cuba was higher than in France, Belgium, Denmark, or West Germany. According to the Geneva-based International Labor Organization, the average daily wage for an agricultural worker in Cuba in 1958 was $3. The average daily wage in France at the time was $2.73; in Belgium $2.70; in Denmark $2.74; in West Germany $2.73; and in the U.S. $4.06.
     
    3) The average Cuban farm in 1958 was 140 acres in Cuba vs. 195 acres in the U.S.
     
    4) In 1958, Cuba, a nation of 6.2 million people, had 159,958 farms — 11,000 of which were tobacco farms.
     
    5) As a percentage of population – Cuba took in more immigrants in the 20th century than the U.S. took in–and this includes the Ellis Island years. In 1958, the Cuban embassy in Rome had a backlog of 12,000 applications for immigrant visas from Italians clamoring to immigrate to Cuba. From 1903-1950, Cuba took in over one million Spanish immigrants. (notice: pre-Castro Cuba’s wetbacks came from the first -world.) Also, before Castro, more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S. Back then, people were as desperate to enter Cuba as they are now to escape.
     
    6) In 1958, Cuba had a higher standard of living than any Latin American country and half of Europe. I’ll quote a UNESCO report from 1957: “One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class. The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 68 per cent.
     
    7) In 1958, Cubans had the 3rd highest protein consumption in the hemisphere. But in 1962, Castro’s government introduced ration cards that persist to this day.
     
    Castro Government Ration since 1962

    Meat, Chicken, Fish 2 oz.

    Rice 3 oz

    Starches 6.5 oz

    Beans 1 oz.

     
     
     

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