Viva Fidel

-- Cuba has announced radical plans to lay off huge numbers of state employees, to help revive the communist country's struggling economy.

The Cuban labour federation said more than a million workers would lose their jobs - half of them by March next year.
Those laid off will be encouraged to become self-employed or join new private enterprises, on which some of the current restrictions will be eased.
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Comment: Besides North Korea and its leader, Cuba and Fidel are the most absurd and ridiculous combination on earth right now. Castro has turned Cuba into the largest concentration camp of the world and has held more than ten million people in prison and close to starvation for about fifty years as of now. Those who try to rebel against the dictatorship get tortured, are shot or simply put away for special treatment at places with the most inhuman conditions. The world press is largely silent on these matters. Worse: there are those Western intellectuals who praise the regime and there are politicans, mainly from the rest of  Latin America, who hail the "Cuban model". I do not know what is more absurd or more ridiculous. Cuba and Castro or the intellectuals and politicans who praise a system that has turned one of the most beautiful places on earth into a hell for the people (not for the tourists). Nevertheless, in this ranking the U.S. also comes in as a factor by maintaining a blockade that only has strengthened the Communist regime and has given its leaders all kinds of false excuses. The American embargo has been instrumental to prolong and deepen the suffering of Cuban people. The American role in this tragic game is not only absurd and ridiulous, it is also very stupid.