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People are doing all sorts of things to get into the USA... from Mexico and Canada where the border is porous and more easily passed than with a makeshift raft across open waters.
Cuba has been blockaded by the USA for half a century and despite that it has a lower infant mortality rate than the USA and higher per capita for doctors. They have produced some amazing dancers, artists and athletes despite all.
It is no paradise and like MOST countries the government is all too intrusive in the lives of the citizens. Latin countries are / were mostly peasants who had little and a tiny middle merchant class and then the wealthy over lords who owned all the land. You know who was booted out of Cuba and who received the benefits of that. It has been distributed to the peasants who DO have a better existence than they did under the oppressive plantation system.
Many people are seduced by the material comforts in the USA and will do anything to get access to them. And there is no doubt that the west has a much higher standard of living and a larger middle class. But tens of millions of Americans live on less than $7 a day.
I don't approve of any form of repression coming from Castro or anyone. I don't think Cuba is a paradise, but I would rather not see another Batisita. who was a ruthless dictator on the right and quite corrupt to boot.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
jef
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