Facts About Cuba

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Like North Korea, Sudan, Eritrea and Iran, Cuba is currently a dictatorship in the Third world.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Like Pol Pot (Cambodia), Idi Amin Dada (Uganda), Jean-Bedell Bokassa (Central African Republic) and Moammar Kaddafy (Lybia), Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a symbol of human rights abuse and corruption in modern history of the Third World.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Vilma Espin Guillois was one of the most dominant women in Third World dictatorships. From 1960 to 2007, she was first lady of Cuba. Vilma Espin was compared to Madame Ceausescu. Like Madame Jiang Qing (former first lady of China), she was an anti-American communist in the 20th century.In 2007, she died.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cuba has one of the highest diabetes rates in the world.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… In the 20th century, Celia Cruz, who was a famous singer from Cuba, refused to celebrate concerts and other musical activities in Cuba. She was one of the most loved and admired singers in Latin America.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cuba has one of the highest suicide rates in the Third World countries...

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Like Juan Maria Bordaberry (former president of Uruguay), Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz has Spanish ancestry.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… In La Havana, a number of protests against human rights violations are organized by Las Damas de Blanco. But their protests against human rights violations are ignored by the Cuban regime.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… The Cuban secret police is called Dirección General de Inteligencia (General Intelligence Directorate).The Dirección General de Inteligencia, or simply DGI, in proportion to Cuba´s population, is the largest secret police in Latin America.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cuba is the first largest military spending in Latin America.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… The five-year-old school children began classes chanting “We will be like Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna”. The “Che” Guevara ,or simply Ernesto, was a marxist revolutionary and leader of the Cuban Revolution in the 1960s.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cuba is currently one of the four communist nations in the world.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Cuba has one of the highest abortion rates in the Third World.

Alejandro Guevara Onofre: He is a freelance writer.Alejandro is of Italian, African and Peruvian ancestry.He´ve studied political science and journalism.He has published more than seventy-five research paper in English, and more than twenty in Spanish, concerning the world issues, olympic sports, countries, and tourism. His next essay is called "The Dictator and Alicia Alonso".He is an expert on foreign affairs. Futhermore, Alejandro is the first author who has published a world-book encyclopedia in Latina America.

He admires Frida Kahlo (Mexican painter), Hillary Clinton (ex-First Lady of the USA), and Jimmy Carter (former President of the USA). His favorite film is "Gorillas in the Mist".Some of his favorite books are “The Return of Eva Peron and the Killings in Trinidad” (by V.S.Naipaul), "Las Mujeres de los Dictadores" (by Juan Gasparini) and “Murder of a Gentle Land” (by John Barron and Anthony Paul).His personal motto is "The future is for those people who believe in the beauty o f their dreams" by Eleanor Roosevelt.

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