What Cubans Can Not Do
Do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure? Knowing these very well known facts below. If you don't believe this post or if you think they are lies all you need to do is go to any international human rights organization like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch or Reporters without Borders - all center left orgs to find what is written below isn't that much of a tall tal
Cubans can not:
Travel abroad without government permission.
Change jobs without government permission.
Change residence without government permission.
Access the Internet without government permission (the Internet is
closely monitored and controlled by the government. Only 1.67% of the
population has access to the Internet).
Send their children to a private or religious school (all schools are
government run, there are no religious schools in Cuba).
Watch independent or private radio or TV stations (all TV and radio
stations are owned and run by the government). Cubans illegally
watch/listen to foreign broadcasts.
Read books, magazines or newspapers, unless approved/published by the
government (all books, magazines and newspapers are published by the
government).
Receive publications from abroad or from visitors (punishable by jail
terms under Law 88).
Visit or stay in tourist hotels, restaurants, and resorts (these are
off-limits to Cubans).
Seek employment with foreign companies on the island, unless approved
by the government.
Run for public office unless approved by Cubas Communist Party.
Own businesses, unless they are very small and approved by the
government and pay onerous taxes.
Join an independent labor union (there is only one, government
controlled labor union and no individual or collective bargaining is allowed;
neither are strikes or protests).
Retain a lawyer, unless approved by the government.
Choose a physician or hospital. Both are assigned by the government.
Refuse to participate in mass rallies and demonstrations organized by
the Cuban Communist Party.
Criticize the Castro regime or the Cuban Communist Party, the only
party allowed in Cuba.
Do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure? Knowing these very well known facts below. If you don't believe this post or if you think they are lies all you need to do is go to any international human rights organization like Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch or Reporters without Borders - all center left orgs to find what is written below isn't that much of a tall tal
Cubans can not:
Travel abroad without government permission.
Change jobs without government permission.
Change residence without government permission.
Access the Internet without government permission (the Internet is
closely monitored and controlled by the government. Only 1.67% of the
population has access to the Internet).
Send their children to a private or religious school (all schools are
government run, there are no religious schools in Cuba).
Watch independent or private radio or TV stations (all TV and radio
stations are owned and run by the government). Cubans illegally
watch/listen to foreign broadcasts.
Read books, magazines or newspapers, unless approved/published by the
government (all books, magazines and newspapers are published by the
government).
Receive publications from abroad or from visitors (punishable by jail
terms under Law 88).
Visit or stay in tourist hotels, restaurants, and resorts (these are
off-limits to Cubans).
Seek employment with foreign companies on the island, unless approved
by the government.
Run for public office unless approved by Cubas Communist Party.
Own businesses, unless they are very small and approved by the
government and pay onerous taxes.
Join an independent labor union (there is only one, government
controlled labor union and no individual or collective bargaining is allowed;
neither are strikes or protests).
Retain a lawyer, unless approved by the government.
Choose a physician or hospital. Both are assigned by the government.
Refuse to participate in mass rallies and demonstrations organized by
the Cuban Communist Party.
Criticize the Castro regime or the Cuban Communist Party, the only
party allowed in Cuba.
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Re: What Cubans Can Not Do - do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure?
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 2:11 PMMostly we are apathetic travelers Mandingo... you know that...
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Re: What Cubans Can Not Do - do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure?
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 2:11 PManyone else see the movie "mandingo"?
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what fascinates me
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 2:38 PMWhat fascinates me about these totalitarian prison states...
A place I myself would/could never live...
Something about the change in focus the nature of closed and artificial societies provides...
Burma- even worse... but amazing...
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Re: what fascinates me
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 8:35 PMi believe ken norton was in the movie "mandingo"
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Re: What Cubans Can Not Do - do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure?
Fri, May 11, 2007 - 10:03 AMUh, duh. It's a communist economic state...
And, before we get too self righteous, although some of these things are instituionalized in Cuba, the US is not above participating in ANY of the items on your list - so, watch out.
Oh, except for the seeing a physician one. Here, you may be unfortunate enough to not see a doctor at all.
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Re: What Cubans Can Not Do - do you go to Cuba to work for change or for pleasure?
Fri, May 11, 2007 - 1:07 PMhow difficult is it to get government permission for these various items? one of my clients has family in Cuba and they seem to be able to travel here pretty frequently. of course some things would be easier to get permission for than others.
