Cubans are innovative

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This was originally posted on LBN.


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HOLGUIN, Cuba - (KRT) - Cubans make ham from algae, dolls from shampoo bottles, and picture frames from old CD cases.

They joke that their national pastime isn't really baseball. It's the art of innovation.

"We're natural born inventors," said Javier Portelles, 54, who cruises the streets in a Cuban creation known as the "Coco-taxi" - an Italian moped topped with a coconut-shaped Fiberglas body. "We're survivors. We won't let ourselves die."

In that spirit, Cuban officials recently held a two-day invention fair in the eastern city of Holguin. Fifty award-winning innovations - from handcrafted U-shaped bicycle seats to homemade plastic purses - were on display.

"This is the fruit of the revolution," declared Jose Suarez Bravo, president of Cuba's National Association of Inventors and Innovators.

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/6970920.htm


I always thought that capitalists were the innovative ones? :eyes:

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1. Yeah, imagine...

Innovative communists!

Isn't life under communism supposed to be repressed with a cloak of sameness a la the old China? Aren't children ripped away from their parents to be indoctrinated in the theories of Marxism?

Said with the maximum of disdain for all the propaganda we've been fed way after we could have reached out. No, we couldn't shake hands because there was too much money being made in the United States with a communist island 90 miles off our coast.