Re: Authoritarian regimes often fear ideological 'contamination' by

On Feb 18, 6:28=A0am, PL <pl.nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

[snipping ****tions of PL's posting already debunked here, or too lame
to bother with]

> >>>> a Oxfam re****t of 10 years old with press re****ts later indicating
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at
> >>>> 13% of the Cuban population was undernourished
> >>> What "press re****ts?"
> >> Those based on the FAO 2002 re****t
>
> >> "The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 13% of the
Cuban
> >> population were chronically undernourished from 1998-2000. (10)"
>
> > [snip]
>
> > That's eight to ten years ago,
>
> (snip)

What Mr. Lobbyist snipped for obvious reasons:

That's eight to ten years ago, Mr. Lobbyist. (The rest of your
snippets seem to be based on this re****t, as well.) You will have to
do better than this. Consistent with the Oxfam America re****t
(previous  posting), we have, from an apparently conservative
commentator in Harpers in 2004:

"Cubans [today] have as much food as they  did before the Soviet
Union  collapsed.... [T]heir caloric intake has returned to normal --
they've gotten  that meal back."
Bill McKibben,  Harpers Magazine, 2004 (See the thread, "The Cuba
Diet" at SCC archives)

Then, of course, your own recent posting from a very conservative
commentator lamenting the fact that, despite your best efforts, there
is no "food crisis" in Cuba. Must be frustrating as hell for you!

>
> exactly the same time as the Oxfam re****t, no?

[snip]

The Oxfam re****t came out in 2001, the situation apparently having
apparently improved considerably from the early 1990's. By 2004, food
intake had recovered to Soviet-era levels (Harpers). And within the
past few months, your own very conservative source lamented that there
was indeed "no food crisis" in Cuba. Must be frustrating as hell for
you. Just what is a hate-addled genocide junkie to do, eh, Mr.
Lobbyist?

Dan
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