duke007 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Ben's adventures in Cuba 2020 (These video's are not ladyboy related ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodie Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 I have watched just about all his videos on Russia. Just happened to be looking at something else and a video came up with him in it. The poor bugger has been hit by the covid virus. Nearly died while in Serbia. Look it up, it is quite sobering!. If somebody else has posted something about this please excuse me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 3 hours ago, duke007 said: I went to Cuba about a year after the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc collapsed. I had a romantic view of Cuba - I had the iconic portrait of Che Guevara on my bedroom wall when I was 15. I wanted to see it before it collapsed too which I thought would happen as Cuba had been dependent on the Soviet Union for much of their imports including food, petrol and medicines. When I went there were shortages of just about everything as the lack of supplies from Russia were compounded by the US economic blockade. But though there was little food in the shops the people were healthy because of rationing, meaning everyone got the basic essentials, usually supplemented by growing vegetables, keeping chickens and pigs, and fishing. Also the Cuban Health Service was great for what is a 'Third World Country'. They had more doctors per head of population than most, if not all, other countries in the world. Infant mortality rates were lower than Washington DC. Nobody wore glasses as they could get corrective eye surgery. A lot had to be improvised as they could not buy medicines because the US would impose sanctions on any country that traded with them. Their education system meant all children went to school, and could go to university if they wanted to. You don't see anyone sleeping on the streets, they get public housing even if a lot of the older housing is run down, again mainly due to being unable to get building materials because of the US blockade. I wouldn't want to live there, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, including Thailand. I like London. If I had to I would choose Cuba over most other Caribbean countries. At least they usually get the basics to live which the majority in most Third World Countries don't. And they are still surviving. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 After my first visit I did go to Cuba again I think three times for Winter beach holidays. I didn't know anything about ladyboys then. I was approached by young women offering 'pokey pokey'. But I didn't take them up on it. I regret that in a way now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pdoggg Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 6 hours ago, Quietguy said: When I went there were shortages of just about everything as the lack of supplies from Russia were compounded by the US economic blockade. A lot had to be improvised as they could not buy medicines because the US would impose sanctions on any country that traded with them. unable to get building materials because of the US blockade Thanks for your first hand perspective as it is difficult to find objective reporting in the US media about Cuba, Palestine, Venezuela, and many other countries. There's nothing like unbiased on the ground observation. A popular right wing narrative is that socialism/communism as practiced by Cuba and Venezuela just doesn't work. But this narrative conveniently neglects to mention that the USA's policies, both official and covert, exacerbates and intensifies an uncooperative third world country's problems to achieve regime change. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Cuba has coped well with Coronavirus despite lack of medical supplies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Cuba's new covid cases, compared to US: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/cuba-sets-successful-covid-19-strategy-200723105446283.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quietguy Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Cuba has been added to the UK's 'safe list' of countries we can travel to. But Cuba is only letting foreign tourists fly directly into some resort islands (cayos). The Cayos are a bit boring, usually only the hotel (and great beaches), but there should be some live entertainment in the bigger resort hotels in the evening. If I can't return to Thailand in Jan/Feb I might look into going to a Cuban Cayo resort for some winter sunshine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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