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- From: piro@dollar.unice.fr (Oreste Piro)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
- Subject: Re: Human Rights in Cuba
- Message-ID: <1h8bbqINNpub@taloa.unice.fr>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:20:10 GMT
- References: <2B379347.11458@news.service.uci.edu>
- Reply-To: piro@ecu.unice.fr
- Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
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- In article <2B379347.11458@news.service.uci.edu> rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu
- (Ray Ravelo) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec22.182751.21746@zeus.ieee.org> jbarth@ep.ieee.org writes:
-
- > >countries, and several Central and South American nations. Sources:
- > >the World Bank's "World Development Report", UNICEF's "State of the
- > >World's Children", UNESCO's "Statistical Yearbook," and the World
- > >Health Organization's "Population and Vital Statistics" reports
- > >between 1988 and 1991. (Of course, these statistics are all in the
- > >past. Now that the Torricelli bill has become law, it's anyone's
- > >guess how far Cuba will drop).
- > >
- >
- > Jeremy, I just wonder if you know how all those statistics were obtained
- > and who compiled them?
-
- Yes, the World Bank is a well known communist umbrella organization.
- Not to speak about UNESCO and UNICEF! The World Health Organization was
- fine until Castro agents braiwashed them in an international meeting by
- spraying cocaine (provided by Gen. Noriega) through the air conditioning
- system.
-
- > Is the United Nations taking Castro's government stats at face value?
- > I remember that not too long ago the Soviet Union's stats looked impressive
- > too!
-
- Well... they the declination after abandoning socialism also looks impressive.
-
- > Maybe all my relatives and friends now in Cuba are nothing but cry babies
- > since all I hear from them is that there are not even tetanus shots,
- aspirin,
- > etc., but then people on this net say things like Castro is selling vaccines
- > of different kinds to countries like Brazil, and medical care in Cuba is the
- > best, etc.
-
- For personal reasons I am very familiar with the state of microsurgery in
- Cuba and know of a lot of cases of children from Argentina sent to Cuba to
- get their optical nerve operated with a Cuban developed technique that is their
- only hope to recover vision. I have also heard of people from US doing the
- same thing.
-
-
- > Also, the Panamanian magazine "Momento" reported that Castro owns a cattle
- ranch
- > named "Lone Star" in that country which supplies beef to the Cuban
- > "nomenclature" or party bosses. The beef is transported on the Cuban airline
- > (Cubana). The ranch is administered by army lt. cor. Orlando Perez and
- > commander Berto Perez Orama, both officers of the Cuban army.
-
- Are you taking this report at its face value? To say it mildly you have
- a very selective skepticism.
-
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