It's interesting how certain countries build ties with China but then cut off countries such as Cuba for reasons such as Human Rights (along with all other reasons which apply equally as much to China or even those countries themselves!). The Cubans complain about their working conditions (I'm speaking as somebody who has lived in Cuba for 3 months), and to be fair the level of control over them is pretty bad particularly in the tourism industry, but it's nothing compared to this. Some of the Cubans I know are put up in an air conditioned double-glazed apartment complex whilst they work in the hotel for 4 weeks, and are then allowed home for 1 weeks vacation, and in the mean-time are allowed to roam the hotel, go to the local discos and help themselves to non-alcohol drinks. On the other hand, they only take home $70 a month, which is pathetic and they do have to check in and out at security everyday. But ignoring the salary and security, it's nothing like how the humanitarian do-gooder groups report it, and having had first-hand experience of how things are in Cuba compared to how they're reported (admittedly, their hospitals are genuinely the unhygeinic pits reported in the media) I'm always skeptical of reports like this.
On face value, this is certainly as good as reason as any to buy a Unicomp board (or a German- or Czech-produced Cherry), but unfortunately, most of our products these days are produced by Chinese slave labour.
