These grandiose gestures of good will do not reflect the interests of Cuba but rather self-interest based upon economic gain. Visitors to Cuba see the great progress made there. Music and the arts are encouraged and there is no unemployment or layoffs. Along with these great improvements however is great misery. While medical care is among the greatest achievements, medicine is rare, sometimes impossible to get unless it is through the black market.
Food is rationed, amenities are scarce and the pay is meager.
Because of the embargoes and sanctions against Cuba from the United States, any moves ahead are set back by economic isolation. It is the epitome of hypocrisy for the richest country in the world to blame Cuba's economic problems on Cuba. America's inferior social infrastructure shows clearly in her poverty, greed, ghettos, inadequate housing and poor education as pitiful compared to the rest of the industrialized world. This should be known to all unless you have yet to take off your rose-colored glasses stained with the mark of the beast. America stands shamelessly alone among the developed nations as being the only one without a guaranteed health care system.