Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The "food ration" card never affected Mariela's family

Mariela Castro's visit reminds us that Cuban mothers have been feeding their families under the so called "ration card".  

This is from Humberto Fontova:

"To wit, in 1962 the Soviet satrapy overlorded by Mariela’s family started rationing food to its subjects (in 1958, by the way, Cubans enjoyed the 5rd highest protein consumption in the Western hemisphere.) Under Soviet tutelage Mariela’s uncle Fidel and his toadies decreed that their subjects’ daily food intake would henceforth total: 2 ounces of meat, 3 ounces of rice, and 6.5 ounces of starch and 1 ounce of beans.
Interestingly, back in 1842 the Spanish King had royally decreed daily rations of 8 ounces of meat, 4 ounces of rice, and 16 ounces of starch and 4 ounces of beans for all slaves in the Spanish colony of Cuba.
This means, that Cuba’s literal slaves ate better than Queen Mariela’s “emancipated” subjects—if it were left up to her family’s regime, that is. Fortunately Cuba’s Black Market takes up the considerable slack."

We know that Mariela did not grow up with "the ration card".   We also know that the "card" did not apply to Mariela, her Italian husband or their 3 children.

Nobody asked Mariela about "food ration" cards or free elections in Cuba.  It speaks volumes about the audience and the travesty of her visit.

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