The Black Informant

Here is some more reality for Castro lovers

from: babalublog.com

Castro has announced ’soaring salaries’ for medical professionals. From now on, doctors and other medics will be paid between 100 and 250 pesos more, in a doubling - doubling! - of their wages.

Let’s look at that a little more closely: According to the Ask Jeeves currency converter, that’s about four dollars and eight cents at official rates at the low end and eight-something bucks at the high end, a term the Forbes 550-Million-Dollar-Man thinks of as ’soaring.’ castro makes Scrooge look like a spendthrift. A dollar a week more, and that’s soaring! If you could get dollars in castro’s island hellhole, which of course you can’t. (more…)
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Sigh! Yet another page from the book of reality.

Here are some previous postings on this “symbol” of struggle against injustice:

The miseducation of American Negroes on Cuba
Castro has been “peeped out”…again!
Are some Black Americans falling for the okie doke again?
Castro and Aristide: Cousins of “The Struggle”