Algeria's longtime socialist strongman, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, got thrown out of power this week, following 20 years of what even he admits was failed rule.  He got thrown out the way they all pretty much do, given the predictable-as-sunrise failure of socialism.  He was hardly the worst of them; he just seems to have gotten too old to stay a strongman. Fine and dandy.  What's cool, though, is that Bouteflika's exit creates some problems — big problems — for the Castro dictatorship over in Cuba. Bouteflika was one of their longtime candymen, sending funds to prop up the otherwise unsustainable regime through his employment of the Castroite Cuban doctors program, which brought the regime big cash. Here's a Reuters report that ran just a few days before Bouteflika got his boot: HAVANA (Reuters) — Cuba faces yet another threat to its exports of health services in exchange for...(Read Full Post)