Oddbean

I agree to some extent. But literacy is 99%, infanty mortality significantly lower than in the USA, life expectancy much longer, free post secondary education. People here in Canada go there for dental procedures because they cant afford them here and the quality is great. The tobacco is the best in the world. The Rum is the best in the world. The crime is almost non existent. I saw children 5 years old and younger playing in downtown Havana without anyone worried about their safety. Tell the homeless in Flordiay and California tent city about American economic freedom. That is very statist of you too :)

Bro, doctors in Cuba falsify statistics in exchange for being able to collect a salary or to live... I was a doctor in Cuba, I have seen terrible things in there, the identity records of before falsified the dates of birth of the oldest people due to inefficiency, It is super common to see an old man who tells you that he was born in 1969 and they registered him in 1974 as his identification shows... tobacco and rum??? They are good, the best in the world I don't know, it is tradition in Cuba for a foreigner to try them, it is a centralized economy and they put a large part of their money into tourism, if they put effort into making them good. The crime is much greater than what the media reports (by the way, there is no independent press recognized by the government) without reaching the levels of the most disastrous states here... on my part it is not statist at all, I have clarified in all the post that it is not what an ANCAP aspires to, under that same logic I could say that the statements you just made about Cuba are very common of you (which is meaningless to accuse you of being common for that, like saying that it is my previous approach is very statist) In summary: the Cuban government controls all the media and the statistics are not credible at all, take the government's data with a grain of salt from Cuba (so as not to tell you that they are false)

Your eyes only see what the government shows you... spend a week in the “El Condado” neighborhood in Santa Clara, Villa Clara and talk and see the people who live there so you can see another part I'm not telling you that it is bigger or smaller than Florida, I'm just telling you that Cuba is planned for a large part of what foreigners see