Obama Shakes Raul Castro's Hand

[Tracy Riddle]

I can just see Cuba going the same way as Vietnam and China, becoming a favorite place to exploit low-wage labor. A one-party state with a gangster-capitalist economy.

That's what it was like before the revolution. No one wants that. Already has full employment. No poverty. No one starves. All basic needs met, food, shelter and health and education. May not have money to buy Louis Vuitton luggage and Jimmy Choo shoes. That's all. But then people have sold them selves for less.

How many of the younger generation understand and value that? A lot of them are probably lured by the siren song of the Great American Shopping Mall, and want nothing more than to have all of that stuff. I've seen it many times. A lot of young people from the former USSR came here in the 1990s, swayed by Western popular culture, advertising, etc.