Til alle Castros apologeter: NEI – CUBA HAR IKKE ET BRA HELSEVESEN
Reason Magazine har en glimrende artikkel om diktatoren Castros ufortjent gode rykte hos den voldsromantiske venstresiden: Still stuck on Castro.
Fra artikkelen:
In 1959 Cuba had 128.6 doctors and dentists per 100,000 inhabitants, placing it 22nd globally—that is, ahead of France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland. In infant mortality tables, Cuba ranked one of the best in the world, with 5.8 deaths per 100,000 babies, compared to 9.5 per 100,000 in the United States. In 1958 Cuba’s adult literacy rate was 80 percent, higher than that of its colonial grandfather in Spain, and the country possessed one of the most highly-regarded university systems in the Western hemisphere.
Cuba improved, as have most countries, on some of these indices in the years since the revolution. As reason Contributing Editor Glenn Garvin points out, "countries like Costa Rica, Panama, and Brazil have posted equal gains in literacy during the same time period without resorting to totalitarian governments." (For more reason coverage over the years on Cuba and Castro, go here.)
Å omfavne det brutale diktaturet på Cuba fordi de har et helsevesen som er bedre enn i MUL er like forkastelig som å omfavne Mussolini for at togene i Italia holdt rutetidene.