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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by JoeAltmaier on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:36PM (#9720429)
Suppressing the middle class, nationalizing industries, disaffecting business people all contribute to tanking their economy. Didn't the cutting-off happen AFTER all that?
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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by hurin on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:42PM (#9720471)
> Suppressing the middle class,

This is the modern narrative for revolutions in Latin/South America? "Middle Class", really? Because well fed people providing for their families decided to take up arms? Or because the well-fed were a tiny minority, and the rest lived in poverty under the economic oppression of former colonialists?

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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by JoeAltmaier on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:56PM (#9720556)
Don't know what that's all about; sorry to press your hot button. But a stable society needs a middle class. You take businesses away, drive people to leave their homeland, its gonna be disruptive.
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Re:Cuba's “Internet” is a thumb drive that moves by bus by wildmusings on Monday June 15, 2015 @03:08PM (#9721332)
Castro solved that problem. Poverty for everyone.
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