>Bear in mind that wherever Cuba started out (and it helps if you start out
>ahead!), it has maintained its position despite 40 years of blockade and
>(now) more than a decade without Soviet support; it is a small island
nation >with a fraction of the resources of Mexico, Brazil, Maylasia, or
Argentina, >and is far more egalitarian than any of these, as well as far
safer than >Columbia. Fonally, you have to ask what would happen to Cuba
were the >revolution to be replaced bya US proconsulate. There, you look not
to >Mexico but to Nicaragua or Panama, two recent recipients of US regime
>change. jks
I am not a supporter of regime change in Cuba. I have only cited some facts, they don't require me to support a US proconsulate.
Btw, many people on the Left don't somehow notice achievements of nations not ruled by "marxists-leninist" parties and myths about "development of underdevelopment" continue to be propagated.
Ulhas