Cuban protesters shut down

[Hoosier Daddy]

Source: GlobalPost

As the Arab Spring rips through the Middle East, anti-government protests have erupted in Latin America in Chile and Mexico, Bolivia and Brazil.

These Latin American protests aren’t intended to bring down their governments, but to goad them into reform. Even so, it's got the governments on their toes.

Except in Cuba.

GlobalPost wrote recently about Cuban opposition activists’ unsuccessful efforts to spark an Arab-Springlike uprising in their own country.

Another squelched protest in Havana over the weekend underscored just how little progress they’ve made — and are likely to make, given the fervor of the government supporters, whether or not they're staged.

Read more: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/que-pasa/cuban-protesters-shut-down

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I've never liked Castro: He is a megalomaniac who practices faux socialism.

[Richardo]

1. Wait - suppression in the Enlightened Great Workers' Paradise of the Caribbean?

Say it ain't so.

[roody]

2. His socialism provides all Cubans with good health care

and education.

[joshcryer]

3. Would you trade self-determination for...

...good health care and education?