How dare you come on to this newswire and tell the truth about Cuba. No readers of Indtmedia want to be exposed to this, we wish to think the people of cuba live in a socialist paradise where only the jack boot of the Imperial power accoss the water prevents them spending their days in happy song and dance.

For the future when posting on Cuban issues remember the following:

They have 100% literacy (except the ones who can't read or write)
They have full employment (exceppt the ones without jobs)
All people of Cuba are happy (except the all those trying to leave)
Castro lives just like all his people (apart from the nine palaces, two beach homes and Bentleys)

It looks like the anti castro mafiosi and the anti communist brigade have finally found indymedia.

All i can say in reply to the above posting is that even if the above photos were true which i doubt very much then this is because of a vicious 40 year old embargo which over that time has cost the cuban economy billions of dollers which could have been spent to improve cuba public services. I myself have visited cuba many times and have witnessed the remarkable health provision that that country provides its people although i don't doubt there are problems in cuba you've only got to see the state of the malecon in Havana to see that.

To get a better idea about cuba i suggest people visit www.cubasolidarity.org.uk and not be fooled by possible dodgy photos and anti castro rants.

No, right-wing trolls hang around Indymedia all the time, trying to help us see the error of our ways. :) Or just to get a reaction, more likely.

Some of their worst stuff gets moderated off, but plenty more is allowed to stay up. I don't have a problem with that.

"To get a better idea about cuba i suggest people visit www.cubasolidarity.org.uk"

Yes because of course cubasolidarity provides an unbiased and objective view of the situation in Cuba ????? LOL

Fidel Castro has eaten the patients and staff at hospital.

Only one female survivor.

The photographs dont lie.

The doctors that Cuba apparently sends for free to third world nations were really just escaping this tyrants unusual hunger pangs.

Reports fear his hunger may be worse than first thought as Cuba has(correction had)168 doctors for every one citizen.

Insiders also fear this maniacs dinnertable antics may actually be the secret to his inhuman powers , the powers that have seen off 10 U.S. presidents and numerous assassination attempts.

Revolutionaries worldwide also claim this thirst of his began in the late 1960's when he actually ate Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara , allaying fears that Che was actually murdered by the C.I.A.

NEWS JUST IN...President Bush is also blaming the medical shortage for 40 million of his citizens on this very same bearded lunatic and is urging doctors everywhere to be on the lookout for a tall, bearded,cigar tokin Cuban dressed in olive green fatigues.

Bush says " he was last seen devouring doctors in Falluja, Iraq, but have no fear folks we'll smoke him out, terror will never prevail ,God bless you all and God bless America"

Well, all I can say is here I am in Venezuela, where thousands of Cuban doctors have been sent to work in the poorest, most forgotten areas, and I have visited the facilities. In the middle of deprived slums you have incredibly well-equipped clinics. Well stocked supplies of drugs, some of them from Cuba. The doctors are incredibly professional.

I don't see the US sending doing to help these people living in abject poverty. In fact, they are outraged that Venezuela is spending the oil money to help them.

I'm sure I can take a photo of some man in a squalid condition in the US, post it, 'The state of the US health system'. Far more people are without adequate health care. And the inequality in the US is enormous. You can keep your fucking expoitative colonial model. You're entering the days of imperial decline.

I have just returned from an extended holiday in Cuba and had the opportunity to visit a rural clinic. This was and interesting experience as I work in Community Health as a Health Visitor (Public Health Nurse) in the UK. One of my companions, a General Practitioner (doctor) and I were extremely impressed by the level of primary care that was available for people. Facilities were we accept limited no doubt due to the lack of available imports caused by the US embargos but the overall standard of community health care was excellent. We both wished we could have responsibility for only 70 families, as in Cuba, rather than my 350 caseload and my friends 2000!
It was a delight to also observe so many healthy and happy children - and a joy not to hear a child cry or a voice raised in anger. Surely we in the so called developed West have something to learn about prioritising.