"Elian Gonzalez will become The Poster Child of the Revolution," Cuban Americans predicted, but nobody listened: "Return him to his father!" Cuban exiles in the U.S. are acquainted with the Cuban Communist Constitution Code for Children, Youth and Family which defines the only kind of education allowed for children, and that the children belong to the state. So take a look at the current, official image of little Elian.
Cuban exiles in the U.S, were openly maligned and discredited by the mainstream liberal media and their message was blocked from reaching the American public. One more time, because of their political agenda, the liberal media rendered a disservice to the American people and to a 6 year old child whose mother lost her life at sea to give her son a better future in a free society.
Now, with a new administration [that includes Elian participant, Eric Holder], the mainstream liberal media has been dutifully maligning the American majority who oppose the Health Care Bill and the immoral ways in which it was imposed against the will of the majority of Americans. The actions of the corrupt and dishonest liberal media expose what they really are as well as the damage their political agenda has done and continue doing to this nation.
Read the information below taken from Wikipedia based on Castro's 1976 Communist Cuba Constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba. Then, below Wikipedia, I have included information about what Cuba was before the socialist/communist takeover by Castro in 1959. This information is totally contrary to what more than one generation of Americans have been fed by the Marxist professors in our learning centers and textbook publishers and of course by the mainstream liberal media. If you want to see the result of 51 years of socialism/communism - especially socialized health care - in Cuba, visit TheRealCuba.org. It is in English and has a lot photos illustrating what you haven't been told.
Agustin Blazquez
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Education in Cuba is nominally free at all levels and controlled by the Ministry for Education. In 1961 the government nationalized all private educational institutions and introduced a state-directed education system. The system has been criticized for political indoctrination and for monitoring the political opinions of the students. It has also been criticized for prohibiting any private alternatives to the state-directed education system and for limiting the power of parents to influence their children's education.
Strong ideological content is present. The constitution states that educational and cultural policy is based on Marxist ideology. A file is kept on children's "revolutionary integration" and it accompanies the child for life. University options will depend on how well the person is integrated to Marxist ideology. The Code for Children, Youth and Family states that a parent who teaches ideas contrary to communism can be sentenced to three years in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba.
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Cuba’s Builders of Wealth prior to 1959
A Wide Brush Review
Oscar A. Echevarrķa
The Rank of Cuba in the World Economy prior to 1959.
There is copious and well documented evidence of Cuba’s high rank in the world economy in 1959. Measured by income per capita, Ginsburg's 1959 Atlas of the World Economy placed Cuba 22nd among the 122 nations covered. Cuba’s per capita income of US $400 in 1957 was similar to that of Italy and above those of Spain and Portugal.[2] Other economic indicators confirmed this ranking as Cuba was 4th in the world in ownership of TV sets per capita and 2nd in Latin America in automobiles per capita.
In social indicators Cuba also ranked extremely well. By 1957, Cuba had an advanced health sector with the lowest infant mortality rate in Latin America (32 per 1000 live births) and 9th lowest in the world, ahead of France, Austria, Belgium, and Italy.[3] It also boasted the third highest number of physicians and dentists per capita in the world, with figures comparable to the Netherlands and higher than in the United Kingdom and Finland.[4] Cuba’s caloric intake was the third highest in Latin America after Argentina and Uruguay[5].
Before Castro, Cuba also stood out in educational achievements which were consistent with its ranking in income per capita. In 1958 according to United Nations statistics, Cuba with over 80% literacy ranked 3rd in Latin America, after Argentina and Costa Rica. In 1953 the United Nations data shows that 82% of Cuba’s population over 15 years of age had a certificate of primary education, only second to Argentina with 95%.
What explained Cuba’s high rank in economic and social indicators?
Certainly other countries enjoyed Cuba’s good soil and climate and its privileged closeness to the USA, the world’s largest market. So what is the explanatory variable of Cuba’s economic and social success? We venture to say that it was its entrepreneurial, managerial and working classes.
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