Cuba

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 13 07:45:48 PDT 2002


michael pugliese wrote:


>Expecting different sources than the CIA, I turned to the
>appendix of, "The Cuba Reader, " edited by a team from the long
>time leftist think tank, the IPS, published by Grove Press. (Their
>readers on El Salvador and Nicaragua were classics, the former
>for example reprinted the great piece from New Left Review by
>Harald Jung on the origins of the FDR-FMLN). Nope, the same GDP
>and GSP stats, though from the mid-80's. Impressive health and
>education indicators

If Cuba is and was such a disaster, where'd those impressive health and education indicators come from? How is it that the average Cuban lives longer than the average black American?

Doug



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