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Seen Modern Day Cuba Recently? You should - Remarkable Documentary!
Many lessons to be learned here! How long will it be before the
corporatists partition it off and make it a "modern" slave
plantation? 90 miles off our coast and we know so little! At least now I
realize my 1950 Ford coupe is still in good hands.
Cuba 2012 (BBC
Documentary) – YouTube
Published on May 14, 2013
Adventurer and
journalist Simon Reeve heads to Cuba to find a communist country in the middle
of a capitalist revolution. Two years ago Cuba announced the most sweeping and
radical economic reforms the country has seen in decades. From ending state
rationing to cutting one million public-sector jobs, one of the last communist
bastions in the world has begun rolling back the state on an unprecedented
scale. Simon Reeve meets ordinary Cubans whose lives are being transformed,
from the owners of fledgling businesses to the newly rich estate agents selling
properties worth up to 750,000 pounds.
In this hour-long documentary for the BBC's award-winning This World strand, Simon gets under the skin of a colourful and vibrant country famous for its hospitality and humour and asks if this new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation in a totalitarian country with a poor human rights record. Will Cuba be able to maintain the positive aspects of its long isolation under socialism - low crime, top-notch education and one of the best health systems in the world - while embracing what certainly looks like capitalism? Is this the last chance to see Cuba before it becomes just like any other country?
In this hour-long documentary for the BBC's award-winning This World strand, Simon gets under the skin of a colourful and vibrant country famous for its hospitality and humour and asks if this new economic openness could lead to political liberalisation in a totalitarian country with a poor human rights record. Will Cuba be able to maintain the positive aspects of its long isolation under socialism - low crime, top-notch education and one of the best health systems in the world - while embracing what certainly looks like capitalism? Is this the last chance to see Cuba before it becomes just like any other country?
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Posted By Charleston Voice to Charleston Voice at 9/03/2013 08:32:00 PM
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