King Fidel's Tsunami
according to his pal Hugo Chavez, King Fidel has a great recipe for upset stomachs (if there's any consolation is that King Fidel must have such stomach troubles that he actually needs such a recipe). King Fidel quaintly calls the recipe "the tsunami."
says Chavez:
Fidel has a formula for stomach problems and gases and heartburn -- the tsunami. Fifty percent oatmeal, 25 percent whole rye flour, and the other 25 percent whole wheat flour. You mix all that and it's a marvel because it's pure fiber and it cleans the stomach, all the digestive paths.
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ironically, the Cuban people haven't seen oatmeal, whole rye flour, or whole wheat flour in Cuban stores for decades. here's a typical MONTHLY allowance per person. meat is rare and in some areas comes only once or twice a year. many of these supplies aren't available for months. keep in mind that this is the maximum allowance. most months, not even these essentials are available:
6.6 lbs of rice
6.6 lbs of sugar
1.1 lb of beans
7 ounces g salt
2.2 lbs fish
14 ounces chicken or beef
14 eggs
1 tube toothpaste (per family of 4)
1 bar hand soap
1 bar laundry soap every two months
limited quantities of tobacco, rum and coffee, as available
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and yet, while his people live with this minimal diet, Fidel yarns about oatmeal, and whole rye flour, and whole wheat flour.
because, you know, with communism, there are no class differences in a country.
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after decades of misreading and underestimating the Cuban regime, the US foreign policy establishment believes that the Cuban government won't survive Fidel's death.
in a creative (though completely misguided) metaphor, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon compared a communist regime with a malfunctioning helicopter:
When a rotor comes off a helicopter, it crashes. When a supreme leader disappears from an authoritarian regime, the authoritarian regime flounders.
hmmm ... sort of like after Lenin's death the Soviet Union only lasted ... what .... seventy years?
and after Mao's death, China's communist regime collapsed in .... oh, wait... it's still there.
likewise Vietnam. Ho Chi Min: dead. communist regime: still there.
one wants to believe that with Fidel gone, Cuba's regime will be doomed. alas, the army and the communist party and the endemic bureaucracy are so firmly entrenched that it is not realistic to expect them to just collapse after Fidel moves on to the great tobacco fields in the sky.
says Chavez:
Fidel has a formula for stomach problems and gases and heartburn -- the tsunami. Fifty percent oatmeal, 25 percent whole rye flour, and the other 25 percent whole wheat flour. You mix all that and it's a marvel because it's pure fiber and it cleans the stomach, all the digestive paths.
See Full Story
ironically, the Cuban people haven't seen oatmeal, whole rye flour, or whole wheat flour in Cuban stores for decades. here's a typical MONTHLY allowance per person. meat is rare and in some areas comes only once or twice a year. many of these supplies aren't available for months. keep in mind that this is the maximum allowance. most months, not even these essentials are available:
6.6 lbs of rice
6.6 lbs of sugar
1.1 lb of beans
7 ounces g salt
2.2 lbs fish
14 ounces chicken or beef
14 eggs
1 tube toothpaste (per family of 4)
1 bar hand soap
1 bar laundry soap every two months
limited quantities of tobacco, rum and coffee, as available
Source.
and yet, while his people live with this minimal diet, Fidel yarns about oatmeal, and whole rye flour, and whole wheat flour.
because, you know, with communism, there are no class differences in a country.
********************
after decades of misreading and underestimating the Cuban regime, the US foreign policy establishment believes that the Cuban government won't survive Fidel's death.
in a creative (though completely misguided) metaphor, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon compared a communist regime with a malfunctioning helicopter:
When a rotor comes off a helicopter, it crashes. When a supreme leader disappears from an authoritarian regime, the authoritarian regime flounders.
hmmm ... sort of like after Lenin's death the Soviet Union only lasted ... what .... seventy years?
and after Mao's death, China's communist regime collapsed in .... oh, wait... it's still there.
likewise Vietnam. Ho Chi Min: dead. communist regime: still there.
one wants to believe that with Fidel gone, Cuba's regime will be doomed. alas, the army and the communist party and the endemic bureaucracy are so firmly entrenched that it is not realistic to expect them to just collapse after Fidel moves on to the great tobacco fields in the sky.
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