A Walk in Havana, Cuba

Walking up the Prado, a street in central Havana. You can see that fifty years ago Havana was a wealthy city.

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• Havana
• Cuba
• Prado
• children
• baseball

[briavila113]

@203207ab I have family over in Havana and I also live in los angeles. One thing that really struck me was the fact that there are NO homeless people there. Everyone has a roof over their head and has secure food. I'm sorry to say, but in los angeles it makes me sad that my people here are starving and sleeping on the streets while the rich oligarchs and politicians decide to invade other countries and kill innocent women and children with our tax money. Cuba does not squander their money.

[203207ab]

@zenbrenzz thank you for your comments. Also, Cuba has taken great efforts to make literacy for everyone almost to 100 percent and health care for women having babies as a top priority. They are now equal to that of the United States in babies surviving childbirth and above any south american country. Even better than Haiti and the Dominican Republic nearby which is supposedly free but full of corruption as well. If for nothing else, that is a great accomplishment in Cuba in its own right.

[edvvard1]

@bobcyra. Just out of curiosity, were you a US citizen living there in '46-47? I think the embargo is a harsh reality which doesn't make life there easy for many. It is an excuse for some things but the reality is that with the collapse of the USSR and the embargo Cuba became royally screwed. I agree with the top comment. You don't see homeless people. Also the ones who have complained to me that the rationing was harsh were all fat people who didn't look like they were going without!

[bobcyra]

I lived in La Habana in 1945 and 1946..near the corner or Calle "L" y Avenida 21, cerca del Hotel Nacional and Capri. It was a different world. Some things were good...but the poor needed a lot of help y Batista didn't provide. La Concha was wonderful as were all of the Big Five Clubs. Unfortunately, communists don't make for free anything y only the gov't has anything good...It's a tragedy...so sad.

BOB

[guga380]

@203207ab all the comunists say that, altough in 3 years with guevara as minister, Cuba had its agricultural production cut in half!

tell me why cuba have desertions? freedom of speech exist?

congratulations, slave.

"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they." Rousseau

[themonkchumoyzombie]

driver 2

[RLhockey203]

@thomasward00 (part 2) and idk about you but this looks better that alot of area in our country, such as camden, detroit, oakland, compton, trailer parks in the south eastern united states, step out of your comfort zone and explore our country before you think everything is perfect... and maybe it wouldnt hurt to see a couple other while your at it, i bet you dont even have a passport, dont knock it till you try it

[RLhockey203]

@thomasward00 you really think that? your really think any politicians of the united states would want socialism or communism? every politicians to busy sitting in luxary, if you think that theres any difference in the morals of a republican and a democrat, im sorry but you are very, very wrong

[lorenzo1524]

@agentfazexx It would if you had taken that class in college :)

[agentfazexx]

@lorenzo1524 Dude, lay off the drugs. You aren't even talking about the same thing I am.

[lorenzo1524]

@agentfazexx I know, Socialist never made sense.

[agentfazexx]

@lorenzo1524 Damn, talk about making no sense...