[link:|

Isn't this the vehicle of choice for a Sinclair Lewis novel traveling evangelist?

Enjoy your stay!

Thanks for posting it! I've bookmarked it and will be sending it around to friends!

I learned a great deal from watching this. I had no real idea of what Cuba went through in the nineties. I just remember David Brinkley, on his Sunday morning talk show, gloating about what terrible shape Cuba must be in -- something about a downward spiral -- given that they were importing bicycles.

From this video it looks like Cuba has taken on the challenges that will soon be with all of us, and after some suffering they have thrived.

Thank you for posting.

They have been a sort of test case for truly independent solutions to food deserts, since the World Bank couldn't muscle in, as they once might have. They learned by trial and error local farming, then discovered the nature of the slow food movement, took it beyond the limited vegetable based diet they had. I didn't see too many heavy Cubans. Maybe bad teeth, but otherwise well developed and well nourished adults.

Sure, it isn't the United States, but the pockets of food deserts we have in the US can take a few lessons here.

One of the other things I've always understood about literacy there might have assisted with learning. They are more literate than we are in the US.

You're welcomed.

Good point.

I've heard about the International Monetary Fund (which, I think, is related to the World Bank) "helping" out struggling countries by giving them loans that the country can repay only by exploiting its natural resources, sometimes creating a lot of pollution. It doesn't usually end well.

I suppose Cuba is outside of their reach.

… I would say they are, for now…" I don't think they'll make the same mistake twice as in the times of Batista.

I don't know much about the Batista days.

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the elected President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and dictator from 1952 to 1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.

Tough times. Cubans handled it with aplomb. Unity.

Thanks for posting this again.

… when you have absolutely no other back up plan.

I don't think my particular view gathers this as an action plan in the U.S. quite yet.