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5/29    Castro's Cuba
        http://www.therealcuba.com/index.htm
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You have seen the dilapidated houses where regular Cubans live, now take a look at the mansions where foreign millionaires that go to Cuba to enter into joint-ventures with the multimillionaire dictator stay. These mansions were stolen by Castro and are now rented to those crooks who go to Cuba to deal in stolen properties, to exploit Cuban workers and to bring more millions to the dictator's bank accounts. And Castro's business associates and rich friends cannot claim that they were not aware that these were stolen properties, because the Cuban website advertising these homes clearly specifies that they used to belong to Cuban executives who had their businesses stolen by the crook-in-chief: "This Florentine style mansion located in the exclusive residential area of Miramar, Havana was previously owned by a tobacco baron. It is now used for protocol visits and can be booked through us on an exclusive basis for your visit to Cuba." regular Cubans are forced to live by this crook who has turned Cuba into his own farm and a playground for his rich business friends who like to do business with him because they can exploit 11 million Cubans who cannot strike, ask for vacations, benefits, raises or anything else. If these piranhas treated workers in their own countries like they treat Cubans, they would end up in jail. But in Cuba they can do as they please because their business partner is the owner of the plantation and the 11 million Cubans are his slaves. Canadian, European, Asian and Latin American millionaires who think that Cubans are inferior and can be exploited because they are controlled by a ruthless dictator. A BBC report: How Castro tries to censure the Internet Thousands of Cubans are being trained in a new school for computer technology on the outskirts of Havana. 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