For every literate Cuban under Batista there is 3 Cuban DOCTORS under Fidel. Also, Cuba sends more doctors overseas to help with disaster relief then any other country, usually ten to twenty times as much as most Europian countrys and much more then USA’s number of 0. He also builds hospitals and sends medical supplies for them to use. The amount of Cuban doctors in Africa alone is staggering, and is the only reason that real progress is being made in the backward and damaging medical condition of their tribal areas.

Maybe that is why Fidel is a long- standing member of the UN’s Human Rights Commitee. That is something you can’t say about an American president. Not bad for an “evil dictator” under a 40 year trade embargo.

Jan. 23 – Pebercan Inc. says the Cuban government is prematurely scrapping a production sharing contract with the Montreal-based company and will pay US$140 million to Pebercan and its Canadian partner.

The Montreal-based company’s Cuban unit, Peberco, will get a total net lump sum payment of US$140 million as payment according to Pebercan.

Pebercan did not give any reason for the move by Cuban authorities. However, published reports have said the government has missed payments to Pebercan and owed the company more than US$118 million.

Pebercan also said its Cuban partner Sherritt International (Cuba) Oil and Gas, a unit of Toronto-based Sherritt International, will get about US$60 million of the $140 million payment.

However, Sherritt has also faced missed payments from Cuba and is owed nearly $400 million. Besides its energy operations in Cuba, Sherritt also has nickel mines and power generation plants on the Caribbean island.

What Pebercan didn’t explain was how it would expect Castro Inc. to pay $140 million when it already owes Pebercan and its partner $518 million that has not been able to pay.

Pebercan said it will “examine future opportunities upon receiving the lump sum.” I am sure that they can expect payment by February 30!

http://www.oilweek.com/news.asp?ID=20826

“It appears that the Cuban government is not paying for past receivables, or future receivables.”

http://uk.reuters.com/article/marketsNewsUS/idUKN2741200720090127

Anybody after reading this article and still has doubt as to how the Cuban Government operates, your a fool and I have good property to sell to you in the everglades and the marshes of New Jersey!

Besides sugar, rum and cigars, a large source of income was TOURISM. Tourism opens big financial doors.

When Castro started, Communism may have been the system that worked for the country’s situation. As tourists and commerce flows, things can change. Look at China and the Soviet countries. Not there yet, but getting there.

Besides Capitalism, Communism, Socialism are man-made ideas. A better system is a combination of all three in some form or another. Humans and nations are not cut from the same mold . . .