Category Archives: cuba
My 44 oranges and why socialism does not work
Dear John Goodrich I decided to answer this call “I’d like those who think that socialism can’t work to explain that to me.” and will focus specifically on this statement you made “The fact is that there is enough of … Continue reading
Student Protest in Cuba.
Students from ISA (Superior Institute of Art) are protesting in this video for the censorship and lack of freedom and for the bad food. The video got subtitles in Spanish and will soon have subtitles in English. To select subtitles go to … Continue reading
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Yoani Sanchez and other bloggers taken by Cuban secret police.
The well known Cuban bloggers Yoani Sanchez , Claudia Cadelo and Orlando L Pardo were taken by force by the state security police of the Castro regime, Yoani on telephone interview mentioned “Fui secuestrada al peor estilo siciliano, con violencia verbal, física, llaves de … Continue reading
Freedom beautiful freedom!
Here is a performance in Cuba. Yoani Sanchez and many others use a minute to express freely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVV1Q6qT8Kk What follows is a translation of what Yoani Sanchez said. Cuba is an island surrounded by sea and is also … Continue reading
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Bottom of the Barrel.
I wrote two prior posts with statistical information about Cuba In one I computed the average salary to be equal to 233.00 dollars approximately and in the other I show a map of with all the countries who’s GDP per … Continue reading
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Countries in the World with GDP per capita less than Cuba.
As they said a picture is worth a thousand words. The following map was produce unsing mathematica and the statistical information within mathematica. The question I asked mathematica is Color all the countries with GDP per capita smaller than Cuba’s … Continue reading
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Comparing Apples to Apples. Cuba versus Chile and Portugal.
I am fortunate to have a copy of Mathematica a wonderful software that allows one to make sophisticated computations and that of late contain a wealth of statistical information. I was very interested to know for example how Cuba … Continue reading
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Who is stealing the money in Cuba?
I was doing some small and simple calculation with statistical information from Cuba given by the Cuban government and found something very interesting. If you go to the Cuban government site http://www.one.cu/aec2007/esp/07_tabla_cuadro.htm there you will find Average monthly salary in state-owned … Continue reading
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Fidel Castro declare himself a terrorist.
In this other speech he declare that he will dedicate to terrorism he will be very efficient at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kw3aZ_UBP4 Is Fidel Castro a terrorist?
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