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'''Cuba''' is the second poorest country in the [[Caribbean Sea]], having destroyed its [[price system]] in the name of socialism.
'''Cuba''' is the second poorest country in the [[Caribbean Sea]], having destroyed its [[price system]] in the name of socialism.
Located 90 miles south of [[Florida]], it is the only [[Communist]] country in the Western Hemisphere and is considered the worst [[dictatorship]] in this Hemisphere. Its high level of freedom and prosperity was destroyed by dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. [[Humberto Fontova]] wrote about the:
Located 90 miles south of [[Florida]], it is the only [[Communist]] country in the Western Hemisphere and is considered the worst [[dictatorship]] in this Hemisphere. Its high level of freedom and prosperity was destroyed by dictator [[Fidel Castro]].
Cuba kills or jails people who try to leave it. When a group of people tried to leave in 1994, a Cuban navy ship rammed their boat and shot water cannons at survivors, drowning 43 people.<ref>
Thirty one people were finally plucked from the seas and hauled back to Cuba where all were jailed or put under house arrest.[http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/anniversary_of_a_castroite_mas.html Anniversary of a Castroite Massacre]</ref>
[[Humberto Fontova]] wrote about the:
:... legend of that handful of long-haired, bearded [[beatnik]]s who overthrew a "brutal U.S.-backed dictatorship that repressed and impoverished Cuba"
:... legend of that handful of long-haired, bearded [[beatnik]]s who overthrew a "brutal U.S.-backed dictatorship that repressed and impoverished Cuba"
:... in fact Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain, more cars and televisions per capita than Canada or Germany, [and] was inundated with immigrants.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=86DE50D7-E16B-42C6-B61E-035B6A1F541D Che Guevara: Mass Murderer and Coward]</ref>
:... in fact Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain, more cars and televisions per capita than Canada or Germany, [and] was inundated with immigrants.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=86DE50D7-E16B-42C6-B61E-035B6A1F541D Che Guevara: Mass Murderer and Coward]</ref>
==History==
==History==