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U.S. No Match for Cuba in Health, Education Aid, Castro Says
The level of health and education aid in Cuba is much higher than in the United States, Cuban ailing leader Fidel Castro boasted.
”Bush will discover that the empire’s political and economic system can’t compete in the area of vital services such as education and health with Cuba,” Castro said as quoted by Reuters. The ailing leader also emphasized that those achievements were made despite nearly 50 years of Cuba’s blockade.
According to Castro, stealing the brains is the distinctive feature of the United States, while Cuba’s literacy program works for millions in Latin America.
”You can’t carry out medical programs by episodes,” Castro said when commenting on the four-month mission of the U.S. hospital vessel Comfort, which includes a week-stay in Haiti. As to Cuba, it has been sending doctors there for decades, said the 80-year old leader, who is recovering from intestinal surgeries of the past year and who launched the attacking campaign on the United States once he felt better.
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