osed125 said:
I wonder how many people who support Cuba government here (or anywhere for that matter) have actually been to Cuba. People say "don't believe what the media says" yet they use the same media to support their arguments.
I was in Cuba 5 years ago, and let me tell you the situation there is bad for the most part. I din't go to places the government told me to go, I went to the small towns and places and talk to the real citizens and they told me their side of the story (which is the real, most important side really).
Yes, health is free; a Cuban citizen can go to the doctor and get check, but you know what happens next? You can't find medicine unless you pay an absurd amount of money (which most don't have); I actually saw this, I fell down while walking on the street and I went to a pharmacy to get a band-aid, when I got to the "pharmacy" (can't barely be called that), almost all the stands were empty, I asked the guy in charge for a band-aid, and in the most funny and really sad moment, he told: "I haven't seen a band-aid in almost 10 years!", this is no joke; he gave me a piece of cotton with a tape.
Yes, you can get free education; but at what cost? You can't say anything bad about the government, and I mean ANYTHING; if someone knows you were talking bad about the government even in the slightest, say goodbye to your education forever; people told me stories that because one guy dislikes the other, he told an official he or she talked bad about the president and got suspended from their studies; and (according to the one who told me the story), the guy in question never said anything bad, there's very little investigation done.
People are not dying of hunger, but is not like they have a lot of benefits either; I talked to people who probably eat meat 2 or 3 times a year, and children in the streets were begging for a piece of candy, this latter melted my heart.
People can talk all they want, but I saw the real thing that most people in Cuba experience; and is a very sad situation. There's a reason people risks their life on a boat and cross the ocean instead of staying there.
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