Cuba lifts ban on mobile phones -- Politics

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CANUK wrote:

Large business were taken over true but small ones were purchased as were non USA owned foreign companies. Over 200,000 independent farmers in Cuba, there you will find the rich. Fidel and his family own nothing except their homes as do all cubans.
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Once again you are lying!My relatives in Cuba had a small cafeteria and another one a small supermarket and both were stolen by Castro's dictatorship!

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26th Paarallel wrote:

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Canuk, I can't figure are if you are ignorant or plain stupid.
As per the United Nations' Statistical Year Book for Latin America and the Caribbean as of 2005 the urban population of Cuba was 81.9% of the 11.5 million Cubans, or about 9.4 Million. This means that using official Cuban government statistic approximately 9 Million Cubans in urban centers do not have a land line!

Canuk is both!He is stupid and ignorant!

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CANUK wrote:

Cellphones are popular where land lines are minimum. Everybody has a land line in Cuba, do they work is the question.Note the cuban phone company is italian.
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True everything in Cuba is either on Castro's hand or in foreigner's hands!

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Gods warrior wrote:

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To be honest with you, I have much more respect for the Haitians than Cubans. If we have to let your countrymen in I see no reason why we shouldn't let them in as well. At least they assimilate quickly and work.

Hi my friend!
I'm doing a researh about the 'zambo'(or sambo) race!I found that race mix very interesting!Do you have any information about them?Well,if you do..would you please post that information for me?
I found this,what do you think about it?


A representation of a Zambo, in a "Pintura de Castas" during the Spanish colonial period of the Americas. The painting illustrates "a Negro and Amerindian produced a Zambo".The first zambos were initially the offspring of escaping shipwrecked slaves, as well as plantation slave escapees, who ventured into various Central American, South American and Caribbean jungles seeking refuge in remote Amerindian communities to hide and escape capture by colonial authorities. An example would be on the island of Hispaniola (the present day Haiti & the Dominican Republic), in which some escaped slaves encountered the few remaining Tainos on the island. Racial mixing occurred on the island and today Afro-Amerindians make up a small percentage of the populations of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. These Amerindians — themselves under threat from encroaching European colonizers — were sympathetic to the plight of the fleeing slaves and welcomed them into their communities, offered them food and sanctuary, and in many cases also their daughters as wives. As in the United States during slavery, there are instances in Latin American history of Africans and Amerindians joining together and forming free renegade encampments to fight their European colonizers and slaveholders. In Latin America, these primarily African settlements of runaways, or Maroons, were called quilombos. The most famous of all quilombos is the legendary Palmares in Brazil, which at the height of its flourishing had a population of over 30,000. The word "Zambo" later became a racist word used to describe individuals of African descent.

The history behind the African ancestry of the Garifuna is usually attributed to escaping shipwrecked slaves, whereas for the zambos of north-western South America, the Lobos of Mexico and most other Zambos in general are attributed to escaping plantation slaves.

[edit] Population today
Officially, zambos represent small minorities in the northwestern South American countries of Colombia, Venezuela,Chile and Ecuador. A small but noticeable number of zambos resulting from recent unions of Amerindian women to Afro-Ecuadorian men are not uncommon in major coastal cities of Ecuador. Prior to the rural to urban migration, the Amerindian and Afro-Ecuadorian ethnicities were mostly constrained to the Andes region and province of Esmeraldas respectively. The communities that exist in Brazil, mainly along the northwestern region of the country, are known as Cafuzos.

In Honduras, they are known as Garifunas, and while Zambos can also be found in other Caribbean and Central America countries and South American countries such as the Dominican Republic, Belize,Nicaragua,Venezuela and Chile.

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[Marie in Miami Fl]

WE JUST DONT CARE wrote:

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True everything in Cuba is either on Castro's hand or in foreigner's hands!

Canuk is confused with home phone and the cell phones.

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Gods warrior wrote:

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To be honest with you, I have much more respect for the Haitians than Cubans. If we have to let your countrymen in I see no reason why we shouldn't let them in as well. At least they assimilate quickly and work.

I was only asking if you knew the distance between Haiti and West Palm beach for some research!But don't worry I'm now interested about the "Zambos".Do you have any information about them?

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CANUK wrote:

Italians purchased control years ago, allowing modern technology, fire destroyed one system in Havana substation, all major cities had phone service.Countryside not so much, never did.
Stick to facts, juvenile and personal attacks only show you up Forrest as an idiot.

Scoundrel!
Did you know that Cuba,before Castro used to be one of the countries in the worls with the highest ratio of phones per persons?

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javalinaomnprimeLcubano wrote:

<quoted text>if you want to be really honest, ask yourself... why am i such a jerk with no redeeming qualities.

Well said!LOL,LOL,LOL!Our 'Zambo' friend is just a low-life born loser!

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CANUK wrote:

Well you left Cuba as a small child and you only know what your parents told you but facts anr facts and all foreign companies were purchased except for american ones who were offered 20 year bonds.(Those that were legal owners that is) Small farmers(200,000) and coperatives supply the bulk of food products to cubans today. Must be hard for you to have to accept that a foreigner knows more about your native country than you! But then I did not leave Cuba but rather worked in the Ministries of Industry and Superior Education for years dealing with everyday life under the cuban socialist system as did all true cubans.
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Wrong again!The bulk of food products in Cuba are bought from the USA!

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US Remains Cuba's Top Food Supplier
Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:59 PM ESTworld-news, us, united-states, trade, cubaWill Weissert, Associated Press WriterHAVANA — The United States remained Cuba's main supplier of food and farm products in 2007, selling the communist-run island more than $600 million in agricultural exports despite its trade embargo, a top official said Monday.

Cuba imported roughly the same amount of agricultural products as it did in 2006, but rising production and transportation costs forced it to spend $30 million more than the $570 million it paid two years ago for the same goods, said Pedro Alvarez, chairman of Cuba's food import company Alimport.

Alvarez's comments came during a joint news conference with California Secretary of Food and Agriculture A.G. Kawamura, who is in Cuba on a trade mission and is hoping America's largest food-producing state can one day sell as much as $180 million in agricultural products to the island. It was the state's first agricultural mission to Cuba.

Washington's nearly 50-year-old trade embargo prevents U.S. tourists from visiting Cuba and prohibits nearly all trade. But a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 2000 allows the Cuban government to buy U.S. food and agricultural products with direct cash payments.

Cuba at first balked at the measure, but reversed course after a hurricane ravaged parts of the island in November 2001. The government has since spent more than $2.7 billion on U.S. farm products and the related shipping and banking expenses that it factors into import totals, Alvarez said.

The U.S. has been the island's top food source since 2003.

U.S. companies in 35 states ship roughly 1,600 types of agricultural products to Cuba, Alvarez said, declining to specify which state is its top supplier, or which product its top import. U.S. wheat, chicken and soy are big sellers, he added.

California produces 400 types of farm products, including wheat, wine and all types of fruits, vegetables and nuts. Kawamura said it exports about a quarter of that produce, but sends less than $1 million in goods a year to Cuba.

"That's a very small amount of money compared to the rest of the states that are doing business here," Kawamura said, noting that a study by his office found $180 million in Californian products that could potentially be exported to the island.

Kawamura was accompanied by owners of some top California agricultural firms, who are negotiating private contracts directly with Cuban authorities. He also planned to meet with government officials and tour state-run farms.

Agricultural secretaries from 19 states have visited Cuba, although Kawamura is the first from California to do so.

"The door's already been opened. There's plenty of business being done here," he said. "Some of us arguably might be late getting here, but we're here."

[canuk]

Bulk of food products consumed by cubans are home grown BUT the bulk of foreign imports of food are from the USAand that is was reported by the USA. You misunderstand.

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Marie in Miami Fl wrote:

<quoted text>Canuk is confused with home phone and the cell phones.

Marie!
Canuk was born confused!

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canuk wrote:

Bulk of food products consumed by cubans are home grown BUT the bulk of foreign imports of food are from the USAand that is was reported by the USA. You misunderstand.

Do you mean that Castro's dictatorship depends on the USA for their food supplies? Weird ,I thought that Castro hates the USA and that there were an American embargo placed on Castro's dictatorship!As I always say..Canuk you are one of our best allies!

[canuk]

Do notplay the fool, you know that Cuba buys food from the USA as it is a cheaper source of food than any other foreign country, transportation is low and the US government subsidizes their farmers. BUT Cuba grows most of its' food on cuban soil.

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Do you mean that Castro's dictatorship depends on the USA for their food supplies? Weird ,I thought that Castro hates the USA and that there were an American embargo placed on Castro's dictatorship!As I always say..Canuk you are one of our best allies!

[canuk]

Cuban population has doubled since Batista owned the phone company and many cubans live with family as housing is in short supply, this distorts the numbers.

WE JUST DONT CARE wrote:

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Scoundrel!
Did you know that Cuba,before Castro used to be one of the countries in the worls with the highest ratio of phones per persons?

[canuk]

BUT half of them still live at home with ther parents and use their parents' phone. Numbers are distorted. The problem is that you do not understand the actual situation, this is not Canada or the USA where new homes are being built at a very high rate as couples marry and move to their own home.(and need phone service) Note the cellphones and the land phones are under one company(italian controlled)

26th Paarallel wrote:

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Canuk, I can't figure are if you are ignorant or plain stupid.
As per the United Nations' Statistical Year Book for Latin America and the Caribbean as of 2005 the urban population of Cuba was 81.9% of the 11.5 million Cubans, or about 9.4 Million. This means that using official Cuban government statistic approximately 9 Million Cubans in urban centers do not have a land line!
Ignorant or plain stupid!

[canuk]

One thing for sure, the american brain washers did a good job on the american school children.

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canuk wrote:

Do notplay the fool, you know that Cuba buys food from the USA as it is a cheaper source of food than any other foreign country, transportation is low and the US government subsidizes their farmers. BUT Cuba grows most of its' food on cuban soil.
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Scoudrel!
Why Castro's Cuba having one of the most fertile soils in the world has to depends on Castro's hated 'Yankees' to buy its food ?

[Marie in Miami Fl]

canuk wrote:

Do notplay the fool, you know that Cuba buys food from the USA as it is a cheaper source of food than any other foreign country, transportation is low and the US government subsidizes their farmers. BUT Cuba grows most of its' food on cuban soil.
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Ha Ha ,,you are crazy man!!!Communism has made you a dummy

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canuk wrote:

BUT half of them still live at home with ther parents and use their parents' phone. Numbers are distorted. The problem is that you do not understand the actual situation, this is not Canada or the USA where new homes are being built at a very high rate as couples marry and move to their own home.(and need phone service) Note the cellphones and the land phones are under one company(italian controlled)
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Give it up Comrade...you are now talking in circles and cannot get out of that gigantic hole you've put yourself in...hahahahaha...

Turn off your computer, get some sleep and wait for the next topic to come up...we've all been laughing so hard at your idiotic posts all day that we really can't stand it anymore...night night....

Vive a free Cuba !!

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canuk wrote:

BUT half of them still live at home with ther parents and use their parents' phone. Numbers are distorted. The problem is that you do not understand the actual situation, this is not Canada or the USA where new homes are being built at a very high rate as couples marry and move to their own home.(and need phone service) Note the cellphones and the land phones are under one company(italian controlled)
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CANUK!
PLEASE GO AND GET SOME VACATIONS..YOU REALLY NEED THEM!YOU ARE SOUNDING A LOT MORE MORONIC THAN USUAL!BTW IF YOU GO TO CUBA FOR VACATIONS,PLEASE DON'T DARE TRYING TO STAY FOR FREE, AT YOUR BROTHER INLAW'S HOUSE.THAT MAN REALLY HATES YOU!