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Their health care system is really good too isn't it?

It is indeed sir. Cuba's health care system is ranked ahead of New Zealand's by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Incredibly, Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than a whole host of western countries, including the United Kingdom, Greece and the United States. And the life expectancy of Cuba is the same as that of America (79 years) and far greater than that of Poland.

Not bad for a tiny country with few natural resources and an economy that has been largely isolated for half a century.
 
RIP Fidel Castro. Undoubtedly one of the men of the century and, lest we forget, a whole lot better than the brutal Batista regime that the Yanks backed. Imagine what Cuba could have achieved without America's churlish economic blockade.

That is a shame and a great unknown. Along with the Sandinista there was no way Murica could allow socialist principles be seen to be working
 

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A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
RIP Fidel.

..not sure if you've been, but there's an impressive mural in Havana.
 
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

To some he will be a hero, an icon next to Che Guevara, to others he will be remembered as that cigar chomping commie beardface. But he stood up to America and stood by his people and was true to his beliefs.
R.I.P.

From whatever aspect you look at it, this is one of those occasions where we can truly say we shall never see his likes again.
 

Christ, Fidel gone?

2016 really is a sick year. Keith Richards has been put on notice.
I saw a recent programme on the Stones. A documentary type but with plenty of live music, following a fairly recent tour of South America. It was quite shocking really. Apart from Jagger they all looked Spitting Image puppets.
 

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