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Have you been to Cuba? That was not my experience there at all.

• dmix 8y ago
  I would never make such a statement without having been there. I spent quite a lot of time walking in non-tourist areas, particularly small towns with dirt roads. I met a few locals on different occasions and visited their poorly built houses with no A/C, insects walking everywhere as the door was open to let the wind in, and pipes leaking. The stores are also severely limited in supply and prices were high for everything. The people were clearly depressed, which was apparent undertone even as they feigned niceness to the foreigners. I'm honestly shocked at people with a clear ideological agenda who try to pretend like their economic experiment wasn't a complete failure. Other parts of latin america and caribbean might be poor but Cuba could have done so much better. You can tell they are a strong-willed industrious people who work hard.
  • kenmicklas 8y ago
    What you're describing sounds like the experience in any developing country. You haven't given any evidence that it's due to socialism. (Though comparing to my experiences in developing capitalist countries I would say Cuba has a very different economic 'feeling' to it, which I would argue is superior for the level of material development.) > Other parts of latin america and caribbean might be poor but Cuba could have done so much better. You can tell they are a strong-willed industrious people who work hard. Wait so if they had capitalism the Cuban economy would be better than other poor Latin American economies because they work harder? At least you're not making the classic disingenuous comparison between the economic development of imperialist superpowers and socialist nations that started off poor...