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Human well-being, along with literacy, are Cuba's strong suit. They send doctors all over the world, such as during environmental disasters. During the 2010 Hai

• morgante 13y ago
  There's more to well-being than being nominally healthy and literate. Cuba might have great doctors, but they're not much use to political prisoners. Cubans might be literate, but they can't read whatever they want. [1] 1: https://www.hrw.org/americas/cuba https://www.hrw.org/americas/cuba
  • moo 13y ago
    Maybe there would be more political freedom elsewhere if all the orange, red, purple revolutions weren't being orchestrated by washington.
• paulhauggis 13y ago
  why are all of the anti-us comments being up voted and the the reverse down voted? I feel like the voting system here on hn does nothing but push one specific agenda/view
  • davidw 13y ago
    That (or the opposite) is a sign that this is a political article, and as such should simply be flagged and removed as off-topic.
  • moo 13y ago
    I have not down voted morgante, I want dialog. Sorry if I'm not spewing the party line.
• gadders 13y ago
  I always think that when people compliment Cuba's medical system it sounds an awful lot like people saying of Mussolini "but at least he made the trains run on time".
  • moo 13y ago
    Did he? Well that is commendable. I also read that he was not gung-ho like hitler to round up the jews. Otherwise, yeah, the dude had to go.
    • Crito 13y ago
      Technically no he didn't, not any more so than they normally run on time in Italy anyway. Even if we assume it was true though, should it really color our opinion of him? I mean shit, during that time period the Germans campaigned against smoking and began construction of the autobahn. Those things were positive and are correctly credited as things that they got right, but obviously those things should not be used to justify the regime in any way. (http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/trains.asp)
      • moo 13y ago
        Nazi crimes did not stop the U.S. from recruiting their rocket scientists and welcoming their intelligence people into the fold. I was just correcting Morgante. I'm not saying Cuba is some social paradise. But you sure seem to be comparing Cuba to Nazi Germany. Something I thought only those exiles did.
        • Crito 13y ago
          Althought strictly speaking I would say that I am comparing Mussolini to the Nazis (@gadders is the one that compared Cuba to Mussolini's Italy), I firmly believe that you can compare anything to anything. I can compare apples to oranges ("oranges are more acidic and juicier, and apples are crunchier, although both are quite tastey"), I can compare apples to Hitler ("More people have enjoyed apples, and Hitler was a better painter than any apple that I have ever seen, although both are biological organisms") and I can certainly compare any world leader to Hitler and any government to the Nazis. What I am certainly not doing is equating them. Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany were similar in many respects, and dissimilar in many other respects.