The Real Cuba

By DemocracyRules

Here's a good summary of life in Cuba.

As a Canadian, I can travel to Cuba, so I did.  Wonderful people, horrible government.  In a way, I wish Americans could go there, they would quickly see how bad it is.  For me it was a lot like standing on the Berlin wall, looking into George Orwell's worst nightmare on the East Berlin side.

If you go to a place like Cuba as a committed leftist of some sort, strange things begin to happen.  For many leftists, it begins a slow unraveling of their ideology.  Cubans are VERY skinny-- why?  Eleven million people in a lush, abundant tropical country.  But the farms are all collectivized, and Communists get no reward for productive work.

The accompanying story tells of a pensioner trying to get by on a few dollars a month.  If she had access to 200 square feet of soil to plant some potatoes, her life would change completely.  But that is forbidden.

Pro Patria