Monday, December 28, 2015

Why are young Cubans coming?


(My new Babalu blogpost)

 We’ve read several news accounts about Cubans in Central America or heading to the US.

It’s true that some want to get to the US before the Cuban act or law changes.

However, there is another reason.    They want to leave Cuba period, as we read in this article at The Telegraph:
Yenis Rojas should be a symbol of Cuba’s future. A doctor, she has worked all her life for the state, and is full of drive, energy and ambition.And yet, despite the announcement a year ago that America and Cuba were re-establishing ties after half a century of hostilities, she sees no promise in her homeland and has fled. “I had to get out,” she said, speaking from the Costa Rica, close to the border with Nicaragua, where she is camped out. “I couldn’t stand it any more.”
And that’s the story!

 They want to leave because they “can’t stand it anymore”.

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Congratulations to Fausta's Blog, American Thinker & Babalu

It's nice to hang around with the best of the best.   

 We are delighted to report that Doug Ross has named American Thinker, Fausta's blog and Babalu as 3 of the best 50 blogs of 2015.    

 Fausta covers Latin America and she also joins us once a week to look at US-Latin America stories of the week.

 Babalu is the place to go for Cuba stories.

 American Thinker is listed as one of the best general group blogs.

 It's a treat to be associated with these three winners!
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Maybe a little ‘capitalismo’ is what Latin America really needs

We just had two important elections in Latin America.   
In Venezuela, the center-right opposition took over the legislature. They plan to challenge, and perhaps, reverse President Nicolas Maduro’s populism. To be fair, there was more to that election than ideology. In other words, corruption, crime, chaos and simple bureaucratic arrogance were behind the anger in Venezuela.   
In Argentina, newly-elected President Mauricio Macri is committed to moving the country to the right and improving the damage that left-wing policies have done to Argentina.   
Will the trend continue? Yes and my guess is that “king of crony capitalism” Brazil is next! How can the 8th largest GPD in the world be so inefficient and corrupt? More and more Brazilians are asking that question!
I think that the Latin America middle class is finally figuring out that “populismo” is a scam and not a good economic development policy. It benefits three groups: big business, corrupt public sector unions and the politicians who carry their water!
Maybe the time has arrived to give “capitalismo” a chance, as James Pethokoukis reminds us.
The bad news is that there are entrenched interests from Mexico to Argentina to protect “crony capitalism”. We saw the left’s reaction in Mexico when President Enrique Pena-Nieto tried to reform PEMEX and the teachers’ union. We saw in Mexico the same kind of childish demonstrations that Governor Scott Walker faced in Wisconsin.
The good news is that voters in Venezuela and Venezuela turned the ships of state. In Peru, President Ollanta Humala, a former leftist, is talking sense with economic reforms intended to invite more foreign investment.
We see small steps but steps in the right direction.  
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RIP: Meadowlark Lemon died at age 83


We just learned that Meadowlark Lemon died at age 83.   

 He was one of the most popular members of The Harlem Globetrotters........they were fun to watch on TV and at arenas all over the world.   

 RIP Meadowlark! 

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The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda



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