Sep 21 2009
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And of course, Cuba also has five decades of failed Marxist economics. You can go ahead and blame Cuba’s poverty on the US embargo, but no observer can deny that communism has a big share of the responsibility for the dire state of the island’s economy. No matter how much oil Venezuela shares with Cuba, or how many yuan China invests there, a nation that has no space for individual entrepreneurship or private property will never produce wealth for its people.
And if you think that life under communism cannot be that bad, that Cuba is a champion in education, health care and other social issues, just sit down for a minute and ask yourself why so many Cubans risk their lives (facing sharks, dehydration, bad weather, the US coast guard…) every year to cross the 90 miles that separate them from America. A doctor gets paid around 15 dollars a month –and that is one of the highest salaries available, bar the politicians’. Many professional women who work important jobs in the day are pushed into prostitution at night just to make ends meet. So much for a place meant to be the paradise of social justice.