So I had some errands to run today but I didn’t have any clean underwear. Instead of being gross I decided it would be better if I wore a pair of my sisters panties than to not wear any or wear dirty boxers. When I was at the store I saw some guys I know from school and I started talking to them. I bent down to pick up some bread and they saw my sisters thong that I was wearing. They started laughing and asking what the ♥♥♥♥ I was doing. They tried to take a picture but I pushed them away and tried explaining that I didn’t have any clean underwear. They didn’t believe me at all and I know they are going to tell people. How can I explain this so people don’t think that I actually like doing that?

Cuba's GDP has grown annually by an average rate of 4.74% since 1994. In the years from the capitalist crisis until now (2008-2012) it has grown by an average of 3.6% - compare this to imperialist Britain, where it has 'grown' by an average of, ahem, -4.4%. Unlike in the imperialist countries Cuba's growth has not been sustained off plundering the world and squeezing the working class. Even in the worst years of the Special Period - the years following the destruction of the USSR, where 35% of GDP and 80% of trade was lost practically overnight - it didn't shut down one hospital or old person's home, nobody starved, and nobody was made homeless. And this is in the context of a 53-year blockade implemented by the US which had cost Cuba over $236bn by January 2011. Cuba has a 'high' HDI index - 0.78. It is the only country in the world to have sustainable development as measured by the WWF.