We've all seen pictures of Cuban refugees trying to reach the coast of Florida.
Some make it and some don't, depending upon the kind of transport they use.
What's interesting is that those who are intercepted by the coast guard are not being deported back to Cuba as it would happen to Mexicans, but are being used by the U.S. media and the politicians in all forms of propaganda to enlighten the people of the world and show them that communism is all about poverty.
Is it working? Of course, just like everything else they tell us.
Most of the ordinary citizens in Europe and the U.S. have a negative opinion about Cuba and the regime of Mr. Castro. If you ask them why all you'll hear are the low frequency answers like: "well, they are oppressed… Castro is a dictator… they've got no food…there's no democracy… etc.
Seems to me that every European citizen carries a SKY news chip in his brain and reacts in accordance with the editor. I'm not sure whether they implanted them to babies at birth or perhaps later in life but luckily they've somehow skipped me.
When you tell them that Cuba is under U.S. sanctions for more than 35 years they shrug their shoulders.
When you tell them that 90% of the people in Cuba are literate which is a much higher percentage than the one in the U.S. or anywhere in the "free world", they are stunned.
When you tell them that the rate of crime in Cuba is the lowest in both Americas and that the organized crime doesn't exist, they grow impatient.
When you tell them that health services in Cuba are of the highest quality and, free, they tell you "well why don't you move to Cuba then and leave us alone"!?
Instead of moving to a place like Cuba, we should all try to create such an environment in our own countries. Neighboring countries in Latin America are not communist but capitalist countries.
Are they richer than Cuba?
Nay, they're much poorer and you'll never see a Cuban seeking an asylum in any of those countries, which tells that they're not exchanging communism for capitalism.
But USA is different, it is a den where all the riches of the world are being brought into. The refugees that reach the coast of Florida are being welcomed by the McDonalds and Coke adverts on the skyscrapers, 199 channel TV, cheap inorganic food and low paid cleaning jobs.
And of course Mr. Taxman. I know all about it, I live in such a society.
Now, we all thought that in a case of Mr. Castro's death, Cuba would go back to the old ways and the western capital would simply pour into the country drowning any attempt to preserve socialism.
Until Hugo Chavez appeared and gave us new hope that Latin America can finally turn red.

A.K. 16.06.06