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Here are some points of propaganda:

> Fidel does not allow his people to leave, with the threat of punishment.

Everybody is (now) free to leave Cuba. But OK, I think that's fairly recent.

> Fidel's private Army own's 85% of the economy

"Fidel's private Army" is just an ugly sound byte. It's the Cuban army and it's not going to be dissolved now that he's dead.

> Cuban's live in relative poverty

While poverty is a problem, it's not a Cuban problem. For instance, Americans also live in poverty (at least 45 millions of them)

On the other side, western propaganda blanks out a lot of facts about Cuba. Among those is the fact that a significant percentage of Cubans approve their government.

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I can't help but notice that you skipped over the little details about a lack of democracy, a lack of free access to information, and how dissidents are punished.

> On the other side, western propaganda blanks out a lot of facts about Cuba. Among those is the fact that a significant percentage of Cubans approve their government.

I can't help but notice that you skipped over the little details about a lack of democracy, a lack of free access to information, and how dissidents are punished.

> On the other side, western propaganda blanks out a lot of facts about Cuba. Among those is the fact that a significant percentage of Cubans approve their government.

Weird. Then why the resistance to holding elections?

I was pointing out propaganda and those I skipped well, those look like facts unfortunately.

And it is a dictatorship, so no elections. I wrote significant not majority.

Just wanted to point out that it's hard to get a realistic picture in the middle of all the propaganda. For instance, there's no starving in Cuba and health care for everybody. You cant say that about all countries with elections.

Is American and Cuban poverty the same?

The extreme poverty in the US can honestly be worse than Cuban poverty.

No because the US has the resources and wealth to ensure that its citizens do not have to live in poverty and could provide health care and education to everyone (they just choose not to) . In Cuba they don't have the resources or wealth but they still manage on health care and education but are still struggling with poverty.

I used to live in Buffalo, NY. There are things there I never saw throughout my travels of South America.

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