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  1. But it was poorer than Ghana at the time it gained independence.
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  2. A lot of which are far-left.
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  3. So does Singapore.
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  4.  @aidanmagill6769  It is sandwiched between Russia and China. Two to the premier communist regimes in the 20th century.
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  5. Haiti had that with Papa and Baby Doc.
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  6. South Korea and Japan had US backing.
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  7. And further fatten the bank accounts of the regime?
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  8. The only real sanctions on Cuba is that by the Cuban government against its own people. Cuba's isolation currently from the rest of the world is by choice, hence the import restrictions and refusal to accept aid.
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  9.  @BrianS2464  If anything, it's the Cuban government preventing them from getting in.
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  10.  @Argenswiss  Many of these socialist clowns boasting about solidarity with the poor working class are from the very same bourgeoisie enjoying the privileges and luxuries granted by capitalism they so love to denounce and probably work in the public/government sector whose salaries come from the private sector (both bosses and workers alike) via taxes they sneer at if they even do an honest day's work at all in their lives.
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  11. And how a lot of Africa's poorest countries are ex-French colonies.
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  12.  @john_doe_not_found  And Singapore was little more than a swamp off the Malaysian peninsula at the time of independence.
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  13. <I think the most important factor for succes of state owned companies is the small size of Singapore and Dubai> Individual Central American countries are on par with Singapore in population. Their problems are political and cultural.
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  14.  @hmmkin6729  Only for mainlanders who just moved in with French taxpayer-inflated salaries.
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  15.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  <You don't get to drain people dry and then just walk away like it was nothing.> Like what women usually do to men yet men are the ones forced to pay.
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  16. Exactly.
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  17. <South Africa and Zimbabwe were the most prosperous countries in Africa under one group. > Until Western sanctions forced them to give up minority rule.
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  18.  @ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl73819  Or you can ask the Ukrainians, Afghans, Czechs or the Polish how much they appreciated the Soviet Russian military.
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  19. That's because North Africa have more in common with the Middle East than Sub-saharan Africa.
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  20.  @medmankatowice  Or Guyana.
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  21. But 75% of Equatorial Guinea lives in poverty.
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  22.  @kanokadany113  Doesn't mean much in a non-existent economy. And hardly anyone is dying to live like the average Cuban citiizen.
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  23. <Cuba was very poor> Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas pre-Revolution.
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  24. That is until the oil money dries up and he's no longer able to to care for you.
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  25.  fa q  <You mean Latin America is generally anti neocolonialist> That's pretty rich coming from descendants of Spaniard and Portuguese colonizers.
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  26. <There are by far more European countries qualifying to the cup vs any other continent. How fair is that?> It's not Europe's fault that the most of the rest of the world's teams are not good enough to compete.
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  27. No. They don't have the resources or human capital for that.
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  28.  @hmmkin6729  Only because France pays 80% of its bills.
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  29.  @Rob_F8F  Exactly.
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  30. Pretty much.
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  31. Exactly.
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  32. Argentina, Greece and most of Eastern Europe.
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  33. But it is by Caribbean standards.
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  34. The indigenous of the Americas, Australia and New Zealand were never in any position to kick the Europeans out as they didn't have the technology, organization or the manpower to do so like the Asians, Africans and even Haitians.
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  35.  @CanisLupusSteparium  Also Cuba under Batista.
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  36.  @juliusmarks8917  But Afro-Jamaicans make up a solid 76% of the population.
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  37.  @-whackd  But Alberta is nowhere near poor.
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  38. Or Equatorial Guinea. Oil-rich. Highest GDP per capita in the continent, but 75% of the population poor.
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  39.  @lisalph8922  Doesn't it also have the most homeless people in the country?
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  40. Sounds like Venezuela.
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  41. Which are by-products of its one-child policy.
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  42.  B Job  No. That's socialism for you as it no longer has other people's money to prop it up. It requires an unlimited supply of cash and resources it just plain doesn't have and is unable to produce even at the best of times.
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  43. Exactly.
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  44. Indeed.
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  45.  @kristoffer3000  Actually capitalism saved China. The last time it was fully communist, it was on the verge of yet another famine and collapse.
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  46. Pretty much. Just like Canada.
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  47.  @benjauron5873  Angola? Cold war geopolitics.
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  48.  @IK_MK  Liberia. It was spared the Berlin Conference.
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  49.  @harizhashim8520  Not really as the Coloureds who Indians are part of only make up 8% of SA's population.
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  50. It's an Indian-majority country.
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