Cuban's couldn't own DVD players, rice cookers? etc????

[R_P_A_S]

What the fuck???? I mean.. one thing is.. if you can't afford this. but where these among others banned??????:glare:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7295714.stm

[RedStarOverChina]

The thiing about rice cookers is definitely false.

A few years ago I read an article about Castro introducing newly purchased Chinese rice cookers to homemakers.

[RedStarOverChina]

The selling of these items could be banned so that resources can be put to better used. But that doesn't mean Cubans can't own them.

I wonder what Castro did with those rice cookers...Did he distribute them or what?

[sunfarstar]

In Cuba, the necessities of life are allocated. Therefore in the past do not have to buy now part of the new policy makes people eager to have these items, so there are a "buy". Our understanding of socialism too little. Many of Cuba is living in capitalist countries by the children do not understand. one can imagine that the new Cuba policy is the people's living standard will be greatly improved and we look forward to the .......

[Hiero]

It is bullshit. Come on, fuck the bourgeois news off, you have to be smarter then that.

I as there at the start of the year. I have been inside three Cuban homes while I was there. Two had a DVD player, and the room I stayed in had a wall unit air conditioner. I was wtih a group of Australians and others had seen DVD players. Also as Vaginal_Residue stated, it was a Cuban program not long ago introduce rice cookers.

In Cuba there are power problems, though they are addressing this problems under the national initiative they call the Energy Revolution. Part of this program involved checking that lines were reaching houses, and that energy wasn't been wasted on dead lines. They also phased out old faulty appliances. This meant appliances that were using too much power due to malfunction or bad earthing and can be dangerous. And recently they have invested in these power plants that run on fuel. They refine the oil at the plant, and when it has turned into diseil they can use it to create power. This are used at times of peak consumption. (note this is going off memory of a lecture we were given on the Energy Revolution)

Now there could be confusion over removing old appliances from houses, that lead people to believe that appliances like DVD players were being banned. Due to the power problem, sales of such appliances or appliances coming into the country from family may have been restricted. However from what I have seen, and what I heard it was too widespread, and out in the open for these appliances to be banned. If they are banned, then no one is enforcing it, not even the CDR.

Though do note, it is hard to get the money to buy these appliances. The majority of Cubans wouldn't have things such as DVD players, however it is not impossible. Also, just incase you are thinking that these houses were set up for propoganda reason, this would be untrue. I and others were invited to houses that were not part of the tour (not the families that volunteered for the home stay).



Cubans will be allowed for the first time to own DVD players and computers, according to an internal government memo leaked to Reuters news agency.


See the bold part? That means some random gusano from Miami.

[Luís Henrique]

I have also read in the internet that Harry Potter and Tom Sawyer are banned in Cuba. Luckily that happened at the same time there was a Congress about Mark Twain in La Habana, and I could post a link to a Cuban website lauding his work...

Of course, there is always going to be those who think the Cubans set that website for the exclusive purpose of concealing the fact that Tom Sawyer is forbidden in Cuba...

Luís Henrique

[Asoka89]

Maybe these items were offically still limited/banned for power consumption usages but these laws weren't actually enforced? And the sale etc of these devices goes on in Cuba's thriving black-market?