Sure they get food from the government……..3 days worth every month. They make $10-$20 per month and have to figure out how to get food, clothing, deodorant, perfume, and everything else out of it. However things aren’t cheap. You’d know that if you would have gotten out of Varadero. Nearly every Cuban is forced into black market activities like “buying meat”.

Cuba is an international welfare state. If the international community stops giving them food, people starve.

Sure they can all read and health care is free but they can’t read very much. They can’t read what you wrote because the government controls everything. Sure they study history…..but only Cuban history.

I suspect you don’t speak much Spanish. When you talk to the Cubans about what life is REALLY like outside of the resorts, you’ll start to understand the terrible burden that the Cuban people are under.

You went to a Caribbean beach resort for a week. That’s your story. You still don’t understand Cuba.