Cuba imports 60% of rice consumption, the basic diet; main supplier Vietnam

Wednesday, July 20th 2011 - 11:17 UTC

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Cuba is forced to import more than 400,000 tons of rice each year, 60% of the total amount of this dietary staple consumed on the island, according to official figures published Sunday by the daily Juventud Rebelde. Read full article

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wesley mouch
No one produces anything in Cuba because it will be stolen by the Castro brothers. It will not be long before Obama and the Democrats do the same in America. If you are not a connected bureaucrat all your property will be stolen.
Jul 20th, 2011 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
I think Wesley might be a Republican.
The Democrats of the USA are robustly right of centre compared to any socialist state in the New world. The fact that the Republicans are even more right wing does not make the Democrats left wing, socialist, communist, totalitarian or a dictatorship.
You are indulging in a not-so-gentle SMEAR.

The salient fact in the article is that Cuba is not producing enough home grown staples to feed its population. This is seen as a failure of their 'system'.
Whilst this is a valid indictment, the same is also true for many other nations around the world operating under different systems.

A totalitarian regime - Cuba - *can* produce a command economy more efficient than it presently has, but it is the belief of the Western world that free market economics can do it better.

It will be interesting to see how many nations around the world switch to a Chinese model - perhaps Cuba will choose this route to survival. One thing is for sure, the present Cuban model is terminally shattered.
Jul 21st, 2011 - 03:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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