http://www.therealcuba.com/index.htm This site says that it's showing the "real Cuba". How accurate do you think it is?
I don't how accurate it is. Pro cuba people always make it look better than it probably is. Anti Cuba people always make it look worse than it probably is. Some one could show pictures of some really run down shacks in rural arkansas or inner city detroit and say that it is representational of all of the U.S. I think cuba is just in the middle of the two extreme viewpoints that are often presented.
Well, the photos are obviously real, but I could take photos like that in New York and make it look just as depressing. I know many people who visted or even lived in Cuba, and none of them describe something like this.
Actualy, this was exactly what our media did during communism to show us how evil and unfair the West is. Well, clearly Cuba is somewhere on the middle, but from our East European experience I can tell you the pro-Castro people will have some nasty surprises after the dictator will be dead (or out of office, but I don't think that Cubans will do what Eastern Europeans did in '89).
i think the only reason cuba seems repressed is because of the trade embargo with the US i wish i had some of their cars
lets see the real usa , the one with milliones locked up and hopless unhappy mean fools trapped there
makno, any relationship with the Ukranian anarchist? No system is perfect and can satisfy anybody. But in the case of Cuba, things are worse because socialism doesn't work (and this is something that true communists like Deng Xiaoping and Gorbatchov, or Dubcek before them understood). The embargo clearly has something to do with this but, look, Cuba isn't hit by an international embargo. And it is possible to have a high lifestandard without trading with the US. The system itself failed, and this refuses Castro to accept.
It's true but I'm sure these people deliberately picked the worst of Cuba to show. Here's what I want to know: why are Americans not permitted to spend dollars in Cuba? The effect of this is that it is very difficult for US citizens to legally visit Cuba. Is there something in Cuba our government doesn't want us to see? Is there something the Cubans don't want us to see?
My great grandmother was Ukranian and apparently lived in Maknovchina during the civil war. I wish I could have talked to her about it. I bet she had some good stories.
Just to show how biased those pictures are. Here's some 'real' pictures from everyday life (posted by myself): http://www.comradeche.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2656
