It must be compared with other caribean small poor post-colonial countries. Against that, they're obviously better off. One can only wonder what would be of it

It must be compared with other caribean small poor post-colonial countries. Against that, they're obviously better off. One can only wonder what would be of it without the sanctions. This is not to claim their system is good or etc, what really pisses me off is that most examples we use, of people starving, of poverty, of misery, etc, in a "ideological-enemy" is proof that they suck, while we are full of it in our "other side" societies, slums, crime, misery, what this leads us to is that, actually, all those other suffering are irrelevant unless they serve as pretext for some political interest, in other words they're nothing. And let's face it, there's much more post-colonial people in capitalist societies living in hell than else, there's just more people. US is propping up a war with Venezuela right now because of "humanitarian blablabla" at the same time there's children starving because of the Yemen's war the US is a sponsor. There's absolutely no morals in geopolitics. If you hear about it, be confident it's bullshit. Sad but true.