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Posted on January 6 at 7:53 p.m.

Cuba is as green as Haiti, and Cuba only bests Haiti in economic and social indexes in the Americas. Thanks to the green dictatorship of the Castro's -are you there Michael Mazolla?- the country went from being the fourth economy of the Americas to being the penultimate economy of the continent in fifty years.
If one equates poverty and destruction with greenness, well maybe. Poor people consume less, in goods and energy, and of course their carbon foot print is neglectable. He should investigate about pesticides in Cuba. He should ask about pollution -did he see the black soot cloud over the eastern portion of Havana? and he should have taken a sample of the waters of the Almendares River or the Havana Bay. There's virtually no life in those bodies of water.
The dessecation of the Zapata swamps is just an example of the "greenness" of the grand plans penned by Castro -fortunately it failed. Another failed example was the "desbroce" or plainly put in English, the destruction of the forests -done with tanks and other heavy military equipment- in order to plant exotic species to feed the cattle, another failed experiment, since the genetic hodgepodge "engeneered" by Castro never succeeded.
Very green too was the destruction of the sugar cane industry, due to unsustainable practices implemented by the Castro regime.
Mr Mazolla has to take off those pink tinted eyeglasses and take a look to the harsh reality of Cuba. But since his trip was probably paid by his Communist host he probably didn't want to look unmannered to the tormentors of the Cuban people.
He should ask Raul Castro if they are using biodegradable bullets for those firing squad executions. I mean, if he had the balls for it.

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Posted on January 6 at 7:53 p.m.

Michael Marzolla goes also to that so very common place of repeating the regime's parlance on "universal healthcare" and "education". Those are myths, since in Cuba, the practitioners for the program of "el medico de la familia" (or government mandated family doctors) do not even have the most common medications and remedies (Michael, don't even invoke the embargo here: Cuba trades openly with the United States and food and medicine have never been part of that so called embargo that is not) and most doctors are sent to "misiones internacionalistas" abroad, depriving the Cuban population of their services. These doctors are paid a nominal salary that they generally use to buy consumer goods for their families, the Cuban government pockets the difference (example, a Cuban doctor in Venezuela receives 50 dollars a month to survive on, and the Cuban government keeps their passport and pockets 4000 dollars a month per doctor)
The so called "education" is just a program of indoctrination, and parents do not have the most minimal saying on what the school "teaches" or "does" in the children's leisure time. But somehow the Cuban people should be content with what Mr. Mazolla would not accept for five minutes in the United States. That without discussing the quality of the education, which has become lower and lower over the years, since teachers do not want to be subject to the political pressure of their jobs, and prefer "greener" occupations, such as planting tomatoes and selling them illegally, driving gypsy cabs, or working as waiters and maids in hotels for a "green tip" in dollars.

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Posted on January 6 at 5:06 p.m.

My God, help this Michael Marzolla understand what's green about a tyranical country with a crazed old man at the helm and his little evil brother crowned as ruler without elections!
And if he so much likes it, what the heck is he doing in Evil Kalifornia???
Green, yes, very green. There's no toilet paper, so butt-wiping duties are performed with recycled newspapers. If they have the face of Che and Fidel printed in butt-friendly inks, much better, since they are the architects of the misery of the Cuban people.
There's no electricity. And still, this thick skulled doofus do not ask himself where are the wind turbines in a country with a regime of winds that is more than favorable for energy production.
Very green, indeed. Ask the fishermen, whose catch was depleted by the construction of the roads that go to the tourist resorts in the keys, making the sea waters stagnant and red with deadly algae. Not only killing the fish but making the surviving marine life unfit for consumption.
Also very green is the slime in the water pipes of the public water supply. Green is also the uniform of the tyrant, the army dressed in green has taken down trees all over the place and agriculture is dead all around the country, so.... Cuba is importing SUGAR and RICE from the United States -traditionally it exported it.
In other words, the cities are in ruins, there's no public transportation, there are no sustainably-built homes, and there's nothing but poverty and misery for the population of Cuba. And green Grinch Michael still comes around and steals their Christmas with this article full of contempt, racism, arrogance, and "higher-than-thou" attitude.
Did he take a bath with water pilfered from rusty water tanks? Did he warm his water over a "green" (in paint only) kerosene stove? Did he sleep in a mattress that is 50 years old? Did he try to survive with the rationing card?
Oh, Michael, don't you realize that unreconstructed commie lickers -and likers- like yourself are the ones who sustain the legend of the AMERICANO FEO in Cuba?
I would just tell you one thing: try to meet a real Cuban, in Cuba, not an apparatchnik from the government. And also, meet his relatives here in the States. They can teach you something about been green.
It's not easy being green, specially with guys like you giving environmentalism a bad name.
I am on my way to getting my LEED certification, and you, Michael, know nothing about the people of Cuba, for whom you only are capable of showing contempt.
IDIOT.

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