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  1. But it was poorer than Ghana at the time it gained independence.
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  2.  @BrianS2464  If anything, it's the Cuban government preventing them from getting in.
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  3. 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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  4.  @aidanmagill6769  It is sandwiched between Russia and China. Two to the premier communist regimes in the 20th century.
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  5. South Korea and Japan had US backing.
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  6. A lot of which are far-left.
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  7. And further fatten the bank accounts of the regime?
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  8. Haiti had that with Papa and Baby Doc.
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  9. So does Singapore.
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  10. <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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  11.  @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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  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. And how a lot of Africa's poorest countries are ex-French colonies.
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  14. <Cuba was very poor> Cuba was one of the wealthiest countries in the Americas pre-Revolution.
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  15.  @ryoukwjdbwopqmqpzl73819  Or you can ask the Ukrainians, Afghans, Czechs or the Polish how much they appreciated the Soviet Russian military.
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  16.  @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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  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. Exactly.
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  19.  @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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  20.  @hmmkin6729  Only for mainlanders who just moved in with French taxpayer-inflated salaries.
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  21. But 75% of Equatorial Guinea lives in poverty.
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  22.  @medmankatowice  Or Guyana.
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  23. That's because North Africa have more in common with the Middle East than Sub-saharan Africa.
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  24.  @jamfold2956  Singapore is 61% Chinese.
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  25. Argentina, Greece and most of Eastern Europe.
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  26. And in the long run, the economy suffers.
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  27. Or Equatorial Guinea. Oil-rich. Highest GDP per capita in the continent, but 75% of the population poor.
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  28. But it is by Caribbean standards.
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  29. Which are by-products of its one-child policy.
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  30. Sounds like Venezuela.
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  31.  @-whackd  But Alberta is nowhere near poor.
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  32.  @IK_MK  Liberia. It was spared the Berlin Conference.
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  33. Only if it practices capitalism like Chile, South Korea or Singapore did.
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  34. Exactly.
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  35. Spoken like the typical Western leftist.
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  36.  @Rob_F8F  Exactly.
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  37. No. It's Cuba's command economy. . What kind of country won't let its own people farm let alone make an honest living?
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  38. Pretty much.
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  39.  @lu881  Jamaica, India and Greece would like a word with you as they were crippled by socialism despite being democracies.
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  40. That is until the oil money dries up and he's no longer able to to care for you.
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  41.  @simpslayer7839  And the current ruling ANC was once a Soviet-backed terrorist group not to mention was founded by Soviet-bloc communists. If anything, they're just reverting back to its roots.
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  42.  @Exli3r  Exactly.
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  43. Indeed.
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  44. Pretty much. Just like Canada.
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  45. So has Ethiopia. And?
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  46.  @CanisLupusSteparium  Also Cuba under Batista.
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  47. <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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  48.  @hmmkin6729  Only because France pays 80% of its bills.
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  49. 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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  50. Decades of left-wing governance.
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