To Jim Carter:

From what I saw in Cuba, you spent too much time in resort(s). Yes,
there is widespread unemployment -- in the cities and especially
countryside. See the tiny unpainted wooden huts, without running water
or electricity in rural areas? Too, you seem to suffer from "sahib
sickness," a condition that afflicted the Brits in India, whose
contacts with the indigenee (natives) was limited to their servants,
all of whom appeared to be well mannered and well fed. But that was not
the reality in India, which surprised the Brits after WW II when the
Indians revolted.

Jim Carter wrote:
"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
Probably eaten. A friend of mine is married to a Cuban woman, quite a
fox,
actually. She says there is mass hunger, always, in the
country...especially now that the Soviet Union isn't pouring money into
the
Commie pot.

Did you notice the mass unemployment or government slavery?
I was in Cuba last Feb., for my two weeks of winter holidays. There is no
"mass hunger" in Cuba. Tourism is now the number one source of income for
the Island. There also is no mass unemployment or "government slavery".
Everyone that I met was quite happy and content. There are lots of various
types of birds near the Havana Harbour.

Jim Carter
"The Boat"
Bayfield