Wednesday, April 27, 2005
Castro More Than Doubles Minimum Wage to $10 a Month
Ummm, wow. How benevolent. Want to move to the socialist paradise?
- Castro's drive to improve the lot of deprived Cubans began on March 8, when he announced the distribution of cheap pressure cookers and electric rice steamers for every household.
On March 31, he increase pensions and social security benefits by 50 percent for 1.5 million Cubans. He has promised ration-book handouts of chocolate and better quality coffee.
On Thursday, the 78-year-old Cuban leader called on Cubans to save electricity to help the energy-deficient Caribbean island overcome chronic power outages.
Castro promised the population new and more efficient household appliances, such as electric fans and refrigerators.
- He displayed on stage two American-made Frigidaire and Westinghouse fridges from the 1950's that are still in use in Cuba, and homemade ventilators, as examples of appliances that consume too much electricity.
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