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what food basket are you talking about? that thing only exists in the news. in reality why dystopian reality you live in?

Cuba better than Haiti??? You are reading to many fake news. Cubans are travelling to Haiti to buy food and medicine.

Cuban healthcare good? You are joking right? If you need surgery have to bring your own equipment, including chirurgical globes and syringes. You have to either buy it in the black market or have a relative in a capitalist country to send it to you.

Dont even get me started on education.

Happy to provide you more details and break the bubble you are leaving in.

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I have lived in Cuba for one and a half years and have studied there. The education system is in same aspects superior than the one in my home country, Germany.

I have visited schools and the education level of the vastly higher. The knowledge of the children greatly impressed me. In fact you could talk the average person on the street about complicated issues regarding history, philosophy and economy. Many where even multi-lingual.

It is true that Cuba has trouble getting some medical equipment due to the sanctions but she also has a for a small island impressive pharmaceutical industry. There is a great medication for diabetics that would save many lives if it were allowed to be exported in the US. Not to mention having developed their own covid vaccine.

You are probably living in a exile-Cuban bubble.

Potemkin villages for the young foreign revolutionaries and misery for the locals.

I was able to travel the whole country freely. I didn't stay in some touristy hotel, I lived among Cubans. There is literally no way my experience could have been controlled by the state.

People were not afraid to talk critically about their government with me and did so often.

People are starving, leaving the country in millions, but you are still adamant they are delusional and live in a bubble. Maybe, just maybe you haven't saw and understood everything while visiting?

No one is starving.

Ever heard of something called propaganda? Are you still searching for the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein had?

These people are literally paid by the government to spread anti-cuban propaganda. It is even on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald#21st_century

> On September 8, 2006, the Miami Herald's president Jesús Díaz Jr. fired three journalists because they had allegedly been paid by the United States government to work for anti-Cuba propaganda TV and radio channels.

> Less than a month later, responding to pressure from the Cuban community in Miami, Díaz resigned after reinstating the fired journalists, saying that "policies prohibiting such behavior were ambiguously communicated, inconsistently applied and widely misunderstood over many years".

>> No one is starving.

Why are you lying?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68434845

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/18/cuba-protests-...

Again, no one is starving.

There is shortages of certain goods, yes. Starvation? No.

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