At Least This Is Some Progress
Filed under: Latinolicious > Politik
On Friday, President Communist Dictator Raul Castro said that he would begin allowing ordinary Cubans to use cellphones.
This is the first official announcement of the lifting of a major restriction in Cuba.
Cellphone use in Cuba is a luxury usually reserved for only those who are communist or work for the government. Up until now, Cubans have only been able to get cellphones by having foreigners sign the contracts in their names. And those that even had cellphones, were in the very small minority.
Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A., (ETECSA), Cuba's telecommunications monopoly announced they would allow the general public to use the cellphone by agreeing to sign prepaid contracts using Cuban Pesos.
The Cuban government currently controls over 90% of the economy in which the average monthly salary is about 408 Cuban Pesos, a little bit less than $20.
Yes, $20 a month!!!
But, of course, a program in convertible Pesos will probably ensure that most Cubans will not be able to afford the cellphone service.
Baby steps at least. Though it's doubtful Cuba will get out of it's poverty anytime soon. Instead of giving your people cellphones, why don't you try feeding them instead????
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Fabio
you are so uninformed. Get a backbone and instead of being so hateful turn it around and do some good. I am a doctor here in th usa and practice privately and perform surgery in the local hospital. I provide free treatment toover one half of my patients. In addition to helping this country, just this year I have been to Panama to the San Blas Islands to help and Malawi, Africa. Get out in the world and educate yourself.
Re: BLAME CANADA – we are all consuming chinese goods now dude. medical discoveries? canada has given us frederick banting, alexander graham bell, and the blackberry to name just a few. canadians died alongside us in both world wars and korea, even winning the battles that we couldnt (vimy ridge for example), so watch what you say. blame the republicans that we so stupidly elected here for our vanishing popularity in the world. we dont want to alienate canada more than we already have by ignoring world court decisions (softwood lumber - we owe them millions) and stuff. nothing better beside you in a war than a few canadians. thanks canada!
Re: JOANNA –
you are probably a great person but your are really ignorant. Don't speak for a country that you have never visited. Toilet paper is a priveledge there outside the resorts which are owned and run by other countries such as Spain. These resorts kick back money to Cuba. People are starving and risking their lives daily to escape their country.
Re: Yuck Yuck – wow, the canadian educational systme must suck. i think you need to come over to AMERICA & go back to school, because your grammer & spelling sucks BAD!
Re: kas – Oh come on kas, don't get so angry, you know very well that everybody hates the french, including French Canadians.
I LOVE going to Cuba on vacation. I always go and see their houses and the way they live it is really sad
Re: SP – well said!!
Re: AMERICAN EDUCATION – you are just plain stupid. canadians have a way better education system than us. their public schools are way better functioning because they have a lot fewer immigrant urbanites than us weighing the system down. the average canadian will smoke the average american on any generalized test.
Re: AMERICAN EDUCATION – I hope all of the mistakes in your post are deliberate because if not you really look like a butthole right now.
Re: Karen Zebra – right, and I'm sure poor people are poor because they are lazy. Capitalism works because it depends upon the sweat and labor of the working class to sustain the rich. Capitalism works because it creates a class divide. The "American dream" is attainable for those who already have their foot in the door. Honestly, it doesn't matter what you or I think, and it definitely doesn't matter what the United States thinks. You preach Republican ideals (small government, do it yourself) but you are forgetting a MAJOR Republican ideology, that myself, as a liberal also agree with. NON-INTERVENTION and ISOLATIONALIST policies. It is not our place to say that Cuba should be a Democratic country, which is really just a great idea in theory. You should be more concerned about China than Cuba. eeesh.
Re: bathog – yes, it was deliberate.. & it was directed to "yuck yuck" who wrote the most grammtically incorrect post on here, while bashing america.
good for them. what will they come up with next. tisk tisk tisk
Re: Laura –
Mira Laura, al final del dia no puedes negar la realidad. La gente en Cuba SI se esta muriendo. Eres Cubana? Si lo eres probablemente eres de la izquierda, de la Juventud, no se. Muy pocos en Cuba viven feliz. Y no nadie esta viviendo una "latinadad" desde Norteamerica, ni nada de eso. Lo que pasa es que si podemos ver todos los problemas porque hemos probado de la fruta bella que es la libertad. Yo naci en Cuba, soy una Cubana muy orgullosa. Me duele ver a mi familia, a mi publo sufrir injustamente. Perez tiene todo el derecho en defender el pais de sus padres. No eres nadie para criticar y defender la gran mentira que es el gobierno Cubano! HAy muchos que han murto por tratar de defender a una Cuba libre. Hay muchos que en estos momentos se pudren en las carceles injustamente. No tienen derecho a abogados ni ningun tipo de defensa. La gente tiene que vivir como animales porque un viejo rabo verde no quiere admitir que fue un idiota y sus ideas fueron una gran catastrofe! Aprende un poco, informate y deja de hacerte la gran latina porque si de verdad ti interesara Latino America sabrias que ha sufrido mucho por gobiernos como este!
good for them. what will they come up with next. the us has their own problems to deal with.
Re: bathog –
HEY BATHHOG STFU!! The real butthole is you because there are WAY more succesfull Americans than Canadians. GET IT TOGETHER!!!
FUCK CASTRO. . . I can't wait till they announce his death already so that Miami can throw a huge party!!!!
Re: Mina –
Thanks to capitalism I have a reason to get up every morning and work.
The American Dream is a reality for those who seek it. Seeing as most liberals are lazy hippie assholes I'm not surprised you're still working a crappy job. Don't get angry because you didn't try and make it. This is social Darwinism darling. Our society needs to be made up of the truly hardworking only those can make our economy better. Karen Zebra isn't saying anything "Republican" she is just stating what any person with a logical thinking mind would. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Re: SP – be nice to canada, they have resources that we need thanks to awful republican governance.
Re: Nairy –
By going on vacation you are making a mockery of my people. Stop giving money to this corrupt government. If you feel things should change then first consider overthrowing them.
I'm sorry but your warped views about cuba and its regime are just plain stupid.
Try and learn some unbiased fact about 'your' country, other than the horrors that come to the forfront in the joke that is the American media.
Re: CubanLoka –
CAN'T WAIT FOR THE PARTY EITHER!!!!
VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!
Frankly..rather live under an admitted dictator, than the snide dictator you live under..and your democrats are just as bad.Hilary and Obama are in same side yet screw up by slagging each other off,your right wing crazies must be dying of laughter.Leave political comment to people who know politics.Read ICH or Counter Punch what does a fame hungry gossip monger like Perez know.
Damn perez,your so fucking big on chairty,why don't you help these people by asking us to pay for the cause. I wishI made $20.00 to smoke cigars and swim in beautaful waters.Who the fuck neds a cellphone over there in paradise?Give me a fucking break….
Please keep posting little tidbits about what is going on with Cuba because
Hey! Wait a sec. one thing is that you dislike Cuba's politics, but to say they should feed their people is unfair! Have you ever been to Cuba. There's no "indigentes" there's no homeless people, and their kids are healthy and fed. If there's one thing America and the world should learn from Cuba is to at least cover the main needs a country may have, medicine, education and food… Every Cuban has that… and I say this as a Cuban who left ilegally. So watch your words… and above all inform yourself before miss-judging and missinforming.
re Blame Canada: why did the United States have to wait for a invitation from Hitler to join World War 2
Cuban people have real pride and self-respect.
"Perez Hilton" lacks both qualities and as a result acts the way he does.
A person who runs a celebrity hate site which is full of lies and that spews hatred all over the web is not someone you want on your side.
I love in Cuba and im not starving..ive had a cellphone for 6 years now and no estranjero bought it for me..EVERYONE has a cellphone here. You guys need to come here and see how it is before saying anything. Yumas que no saben nada de la vida…ponte pa eso! Viva Cuba!
Re: Cuban_Cutie – Right on…Cuba Cutie. Fidel is not the problem. The embargo's are. China is communist…Yet the US trades millions each and every day. Yet there are no embargo's or sanctions on China, they can continue to put lead in our toys, make our kids sick and we continue to trade millions and millions to them. Really makes no sense, the US administration hates a man and the country suffers. LIFT THE EMBARGO's.
I live in Cuba and im not starving..ive had a cellphone for 6 years now and no estranjero bought it for me..EVERYONE has a cellphone here. You guys need to come here and see how it is before saying anything. Yumas que no saben nada de la vida…ponte pa eso! Viva Cuba!
Re: SP – actually, I am very successful. I never said I was working a crappy job. Not that that matters, although a point can be made that the more educated you are, the more likely you are to be liberal. Social Darwinism? don't even get me started on that. It's not worth it trying to argue with people who don't have two brain cells to rub together. I'm going to stop arguing this point though; if I want to read about informed politics I certainly wouldn't come to Perez Hilton.
Re: Russell Taylor – Each state has their own healthcare system if you cannot recieve medicaid………and what is medicaid….federal free health care
Re: Mina – What are you talking about? I work with low income families and you can get food, healthcare and other assistance. Yes, there are people who are poor because they are lazy or drug addicts. Also, not every successful person had a 'foot in the door' like you said.
Re: Mina –
Then use your money and pay for insurance! Being book educated has very little to do with logical thinking.
Hey remember how before Castro there was that dictator Batista that the American had propped up. The one who let America take/do whatever it wanted. The one who didn't provide healthcare and lived in the lap of luxury while his people starved. I guess you're descended from one of those Cubans that had it good during those times, while almost everyone else suffered.
Castro is no angel, he is a dictator, but he's a hell of a lot better than any of the numerous brutal and exploitive dictators that America propped up.
I LIVE IN MIAMI…and the CUBANS HATE americans. Thay make NO attempt to speak English and actually get offended if you speak to them in English. I wish they would ALL go back to CUBA if they hate this country so much!!!!!
Re: iliketurtles – I'm pretty sure Mina was being sarcastic… it's true, some people do realize the American dream, but they are the exception and not the rule. if a single mother is working 3 jobs and still can't make ends meet, there is something wrong with the system, and not with her. social assistance programs do exist but they have a lot of problems. such as welfare and the fact the Bush vetoed SCHIP funding.
Kimberly, shut up.
I live in Miami too, and like all immigrants Cubans have to be given time to adjust. Funny how the new third-generation is already having difficulty speaking Spanish natively, whereas you're angry that the "Cubans" (probably you don't know the difference between one, and the many other Hispanics in Miami) are ungrateful to this country — when they have fallen in every war the USA has participated in, since 1961. For 1 million emigres, they far outnumber all the other Hispanics in college graduates, and successful entrepreneurs than ALL the other Hispanics in the US.
Miami would be a third-rate city if it weren't for them, and I'm not very partial to that Cuban griteria either, and hardly an apologist.
I just hate when racism raises its ugly, unknowing head under the veil of complaint.
Go back to Weston, and pump up on your Bing Crosby CDs, dimtard.
Cubanita, if you have cellphones in Cuba, you must be a member of the MOST UPPER ECHELONS of Communist bureaucracy.
Por que los Palestinos no tienen ni un calzonzillo aya, comemierda cubana arrepentida. Ponte de cuatros para Vilmita. XD.
Stupid Cubans, no wonder they are flooding the US. Why are they all so fucked int he head. ?? Maybe this is why all Cubans are pieces of shit with a chip on their shoulder.
Re: KimberlyisStupid – cubans and other south americans are lazy and bring nothing with them but an open hand when they arrive. the cowards should stay home and try to improve things by rioting and violence. they are just like all of the others on the subcontinents: when the going gets tough they refugee. stop whining and get a gun.
Re: SP –
Thank you, enough said.
Cuban's rule bicth'es….
Re: Cubanita –
Then why aren't you and your people FREE?? FREE Yourselves. You are not living as well as you should be. You deserve better than that. God gave you Freedom use it.
to be fair, raúl is also allowing for more family-owned business AND he's revaluing the peso.
=]
mi man, ur making us look bad…yea communism sucks and cuba is in shambles- but dont hold our dirty laundry out for the world to see…that just makes assholes like this one sound right
"THESE MONKEYS JUST DON'T KNOW HOW TO LIVE IN A CIVILIZED WAY
NO WONDER PEREZ IS SUCH A DOUCHE 
"
(copied and pasted from a previous comment)
u shoulda ended it a bit more position- with a viva la revoluccion =P
Re: sandy nista –
There are actually many Cubans dying in prison right now because they fought against the government. The reason you don't hear about it is because the government has complete control over the information that enters as well as leaves the country. They would grabs guns if there WERE guns to grab. If you didn't know Cubans can't import anything, less yet guns. Get your head out of the clouds this isn't some Hollywood movie. It's clear to me that you've never had anything to fight for. Two more things: "subcontinents" give me a break mami. And since when is Cuba part of South America? Go back to eighth grade and learn some geography.
To all the Cuban haters on the site…Why ARE you visiting a Cuban man's website? Stop being such hypocrites. "Cubans suck, Cubans this and that" yet here you are making Perez ever more wealthy. You all come off as idiots in the end.
Re: the immortal bathog – thank you
Reply to kimberly is stupid:
I have WORKED HARD to get what I have. I work in LITTLE HAVANA and have 1st hand knowledge of how CUBANS SCREW and use THE SYSTEM (Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, etc…). And to compare other hispanics to CUBANS is not fair b/c CUBANS are the ONLY UNGRATEFUL ones b/c they get a FREE RIDE once they get here and have NO RESPECT for my country!!!
If CUBANS love America so much…why do they refuse to learn English in MIAMI, LITTLE HAVANA, HIALEAH??
Bunch of lazy, apathetic, slobs.
ehmm! correction..nopbody is starving in cuba… free health care and education like some pple said above.. i went to cuban, im dominican and although theres no luxury around, dominican republic and all the latinamerican countries and why not, the US wish to have the system in education, health for their pple..
Re: Kimberly Smith –
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? Let us take a moment and truly analyze what you're saying. There are bad Cubans sure, there are bad people from every country. However, there are complaining Mexicans hiding in churches, NOT learning English, marching around American cities claiming that Americans stole the US from them. The streets of Los Angeles are infested with their gangs as they kill, rape and abuse the innocent. You could talk about all the different South Americans, millions of immigrant groups and you will always find bad people, not learning English, cheating the system. There are bad Americans too. Murderers, sociopaths, thieves, rapists you name it. There are also many lazy Americans that sit all day and stuff their fat faces. There are Americans that burn their flag, attack buildings in Oklahoma, kidnap, speak ill about their country. So what is your point? You've met "bad" Cubans I'm sorry. I am Cuban, I speak English fluently so do my parents, my siblings, many of our Cuban friends. I wasn't born in America. I don't ask for welfare because I don't need it. I have a college education which I earned by working hard in school. So again WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I'm glad you love your country so do I. I'm not lazy, I'm not apathetic, and I am most definitely NOT a slob. You don't know me and there is no way in hell that you know every Cuban out there. Next time think before you type.
"I've been there",
I'VE BEEN THERE ALSO , and I have no idea why you would think Im uninformed.
As you said, all I wrote was hateful words…
So , to give you some info and prove I know better about Cuba than you, here is some information in your field:
Cuba has 35.000 doctors working in third world countries and they dont go marketing themselves in websites.The only recognition they want is from the people they help. Hope you think the same, thats why you became a doctor, right??
Keep up the good work and maybe one day I will learn from you and help people as well
Take care!
Re: Kimberly Smith –
Actually, the majority of us LOVE this country more than we love our own and owe this country a lot for allowing us to stay here and bust our asses to better ourselves.
What we don't like, however, are prejudice, ignorant, fools like you who have no clue what you are talking about and hate on us because we pretty much BUILT Miami.
I'm sure you're not old enough to know this but in the 60's when Cubans started migrating to Miami… it was nothing but SWAMP and now thanks to us… Miami is famous for it's delicious Cuban food and gorgeous Cuban-American women (amongst other things).
Yep, that must be it… you're an ugly white chick got her first taste of some Latin lovin' and was probably dropped like a bad habit!
A bit of a hater, are you? Well, hate on! You don't have to deal with us… if we bother you that much, you can either ignore us OR build yourself a ship and sail your ass back to England because in case you didn't know this… YOU'RE AS MUCH OF AN IMMIGRANT AS WE ARE!
P.S.
Go get yourself a tan on South Beach!!!! Just wear a sarong… you don't want your flat, cracker ass to be compared to the hot Cuban chick tanning next to you!
Re: Mina – I don't see what G bay has to do with anything.
It affects practically ZERO Americans.
We are talking about people living their everyday lives.
You can hardly compare the problems of not being allowed mobile phones or microwaves, everyday things, to G bay which certainly does not affect the general US population. (Even though it is a big problem- just in a different way)
Re: Jackie –
The U.S. Won't help because there's nothing in it for them.
That island is destroyed and they have nothing to offer the U.S. (Unlike Iraq and their oil supply. Enough said?!)
The only people who can free Cuba are the people who live on the island. Unfortunately, they don't have the right to protest like we do here. They are terrified! But if they got off their asses and helped themselves… maybe they'll be free one day.
Hurts to say it because I have family there… but it's reality! No one can help Cuba but the Cubans on the island, themselves :\
Re: Cubanita –
One thing To say to you…
Eres una comunista! Sigue vendiendo el culo por unos zapatos! Todo lo que tienes, to tienes porque tu familia en los Estados Unidos se sudan el culo 8 horas todos los dias para que tengas ese celular.
Si no fuera por eso (o porque te acuestas con extranjeros por un perfume) furas tan muerta de hambre como los demas.
Es muy rico decir que en Cuba hay de todo… me imagino que eres una borracha que no trabaja y vive a costilla de su familia en Miami que se parte el culo y trabajan como animales para que vivas comoda.
Entendiera mejor su ignorancia si fueras Americana o de otro pais… pero que vivas en Cuba y digas que no estan pasando hambre??? Wow!
Me imagino que se la mamas a Fidel. Quedate donde estas. Para aqui no vengas!
ok you ppl who say cubans dont have it all the bad are all retards because u have no idea what is going on in cuba. ppl dont die of hunger becuase their families from the US send them money b yea they have an awesome education that is worth shit in cuba…..some maids get paid more than doctors!!!!!!! and as far as freedom, there is no such thing.
love u perez
Re: sandy nista –
Call us what you want… but LAZY?!?!?!
I will admit that the people who arrive now a days want everything handed to them. They don't want to work and have this misconception that life in this country is easy… WRONG! In order to have anything here you must work for it and I can understand if you're referring to THEM… but I will have you know that my parents came in 1980 and since then have done everything from picking tomatoes to cleaning toilets to eventually having their own business.
They worked their @$$es off to give their 3 kids everything they wanted and more and I'm pretty sure I can say the same about the majority of Cubans who have been here for years. So please think before your speak… think quickly though I'm sure you have to be in the welfare line early tomorrow morning.
Ignorant much? Must be… GET A CLUE.
Have any of you visited Cuba? There certainly is poverty and hunger, when people on the streets beg you for money or for soap. You Americans probably never been there so you all should not give in your two cents. I feel sorry for American school and health system. So so sad.
Just wanted to let you know that for all its faults cuba has a higher literacy rate than america - Focus on all ths shit thats wrong with your own country and there is A LOT of it
I am so happy and proud of you for talking about CUBA…. I a young cuban american woman - born in the MIA - I totally agree with you.. What's the point of cell phones if they only make $20 a month…. that's so ridiculous… it burns my blood!
love ya!
Re: waitandwatch – you are correct people don't starve there but how would you like to live your day not knowing if you are going to have enough food to stretch for the week or the rest of the month… They ration out there food over there… Also they don't get the best of clothing - if it were not for my family always send clothing and medicine and other items that are needed they would have nothing - and yes i think it is great that they get free health care and if i may say so Cuba has the best study of medicine over there!
Re: emily –
So!?
Re: SP –
SP, I LOVE YOU!! Right On, Right On!!
Re: Karen Zebra –
Thank you for being an informed woman. GO KAREN ZEBRA!!!!
Re: D –
Oye muy bien dicho. Viviendo a costilla de todos. Muchos Cubanos se estan matando en este pais para darles de comer para que esta come mierda venga a hablar basura. Pero ya pronto podremos regresar y veremos tipas como esta pidiendo limosna.
ABAJO FIDEL Y AHORA RAUL!!!! VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!
I wonder if you could fit 20 cuban pesos and a cell phone up his ass?
Stupid piece of shit should be dumped out in the ocean w/ blood
pouring out of his giant roids, attracting sharks and then I would video tape
it and have Jimmy Buffet as a soundtrack and then all the lame ass
baby boomers would have to watch it cause they love that shit.
(Jimmy Buffet I mean)
Re: Cubanita –
And how exactly did you get internet access??? Yeah you're a communist!!!
Re: SP – if you are standing in america and want to get to cuba what direction do you have to travel? i am pretty sure it is south, therefore south america. i really have no combat experience you are right, but the reason is that the founders of this country did a lot of fighting for me. cubans are just running to miami and hangin bangin and slangin. the few that have tried to fight things are to be commended but i am not talking about them.
I was in Cuba in feb and just about every person I saw in Varadero and Havana HAD A CELLPHONE and that country has its problems yes…but it has its good points too…
Thank you for the updates! and BTW Cuba IS filled with poverty and people do go hungry! Again Perez thank you for the updates its wonderful to see people that care about there culture!
I left Cuba myself some 4 years ago, and I can tell you — LIES. To all of you who visit Cuba and have only good things to report… Remember that as tourists, you get a biased view of Cuba — even if you travel "independently," government restrictions are in place such that you see some censorship, but are overwhelmed by the "education" and "health care."
The Cuban people are hungry, overworked, not properly educated, and often resort to in-home health care because the health care for native Cubans is grossly sub-par. Thank you all for your interest in this issue, but please see that as tourists, you will never see the Cuba that Cubans experience.
Gracias, Perezito, por reportar sobre las condiciones verdaderas en Cuba. Y para las proximas navidades — pasa por Miami otravez y recoge turron!
Re: sandy nista –
Sandy Nista — Cuba is in the Caribbean, not South America.
immigrants: many of you are great people. some of you are scum. all of you need to do a few basic things when you come here. learn the language. legalize yourselves and pay your taxes. respect your neighbors and the country. get a job. being here is a priveledge. treat it as such.
Re: Maria Elena – which lies to the south of america quiff.
Re: D – you agree with everything i said and then call me a dummy. which one of us is the stupidest?
Re: SP – boy it must be HARD WORK to WAIT FOR THE PARTY. hypocrite. we speak english here. all that argenzuelican scrawling is an insult to legitimate americans who actually work to achieve their dreams. you are content however to sit in your comfortable hovel and wait it out. time for you to make a reality check.
Re: SP – Well stated. Totally true. Canadians should not be going to Cuba. Finally someone is speaking some truth. I am with you all the way.
Re: bathog – We are all North Americans. Immigrants don't need to be told to get a job and contribute. It' the generation xers that need to be told that.
Re: deedee – why not?
Re: bathog – The reason Canadians should not be spending money in Cuba is because it does not go to the Cubans it goes to the Castros. Basically it is the equivalent of Canadians giving money to Sudam and his sons . I think Canadians are proud of the fact that they can go to Cuba. They see this as an example of their neutrality. It makes me sick. I think the 70's and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his wife Maggie contributed to this philosophy. What the f are Canadians thinking?
but at least they have universal healthcare. They may be oppressive as shit but at least their citizens have access to basic necessities.
My God, you absolute unrepentant witch — ALL IMMIGRANTS have difficulty adopting the new language of their country. Do you think Jewish immigrants, Italian immigrants, or even German immigrants spoke English instantly?
Remember Rick Sanchez of Channel 7 (of Belkys Nerey fame). HIS KIDS don't speak a lick of English, and have to have their grandma's Spanish translated to them. A famous example so you can get this through your thick racist noggin.
Oh, by the way, if you want to meet real Cubans, don't stick around Little Havana. Those are rafters who arrived yesterday, comparatively. The real Cubans are long since gone from Little Havana. Head to Coral Gables, dimtard.
P.S.: Whatever: I hope one day the full impact of your ridiculous statement will make you blanch in horror. Trading "free" health care (which comes from taxes, or in the case of Cuba, courtesy first of Soviet now Venezuelan subsidies) for freedom. If I had one wish for you, it's for you to live there but one day without the creature comforts and right to blab all over the internet that America gives you. Ingrate.
"HIS KIDS don't speak a lick of English"
Should be Spanish.
Hopefully the message sunk anyway. We live in hope.
Re: Roger –
I'm inclined to agree.
HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN TO CUBA PEREZ?
Your parents may be Cuban, but you, sir, are American. Unless you've actually been there, and not just to some all inclusive in Veradero, then I suggest you keep your judgements about Cuba and its people to yourself, Perez.
Yea and according for someone I know that works for Cubalse (the only cellphone company on the island) the cost to put a line will 120 chavitos ( Cuban Convertible Money) plus the cost of phone cards for minute. WHO CAN AFFORD THAT????
PS. I love u Perez!!! Saw u on Life & Style for ur birthday celebration…que chulo!!
Usually i would not have anything to say about posts but this kits close to home. Cuba is only sold as a bad place because they are communist and that is not alwas bad. Not because people disagree with our way of life means that they are bad. Why not look at the good things? Cuba's education rate is almost 100% and they are offered free healthcare. It is also unfair to calculate their earnings in american dollars because the cost of living is different. It is also wrong to assume that people go hungry in Cuba because that is not true!
TO kimberlyisstillstupid:
MANY MANY of the cubans in Miami have been here for 40+ years (and STILL don't/want to speak ENGLISH). Maybe you should haul yourself south of N. Miami and experience your culture for what it really is. I have FIRST HAND knowledge of the DISTAIN that cubans hold for AMERICANS!!! I have FIRST HAND knowledge of the cheating of our system. When my ancestors came to this country the FIRST thing that they did was LEARN the LANGUAGE…it certainly DID NOT take them 40 years.
Not to mention America's economic sanctions of Cuba….. while trade with communist China is encouraged and abundant… Fucking hypocrites! Get your facts straight before you post smth that a bunch of idiots like yourself are going to read and take for gospel.
Re: bathog –
My family has political asylum in America. We can't enter the country. What the hell do you know? My eldest brother currently sits in a jail in Cuba because he fought hard against the government. Get a reality check don't make assumptions!!
Re: sandy nista –
HOney stop making yourself sound ever more stupid. Cuba is in the Caribbean Plate which constitutes as part of North America and guess what Mexico is south of the US and it's still part of North America. You probably didn't know that either. The US is south of Canada and Greenland and *gasp* they're all part of North America too. Clearly you slept through geography and the let-me-think-before-I-type-and-pick-up-a-map class!!
Re: bathog –
I agree with you immigrants DO need to learn the language, I certainly did. I pay my taxes blah blah. Nobody here is writing about what immigrants should do. We are mostly discussing whether or not Cuba is as great as people believe and what not.
Re: SP – so what you are saying is you ran away? why arent you in jail beside your heroic brother? I am confused by your postings.
i see you refer to liberals as lazy hippie assholes. now i am really confused. you dont know where you stand do you? i have named you shit pile (SP)
Re: SP – by the way I usually decide the topic of conversation, and we are discussing the relative merits of fleeing (french style) vs staying to do the wet work required to reform a tyrrannical government. pay attention
Re: Bforbrutus – Aren't you a hater? How bout you get over yourself?
Re: SP – You say there are way more successful americans than canadians.
Well considering america has 10 times the population that would likely be accurate. But not so per capita probably.
At any rate ….what is your point re that? I am perplexed.
Re: SP – Very sincerely sorry about your brother. I can't imagine the pain your family must all be experiencing.