But there are many Cubans who find their lives much better here than before the revolution. Medical care is free.
Education is also state-funded.
Cuba's 97 percent literacy rate is among the highest in the world. You have brought a new system of government, obviously, to Cuba, but the Cuban people do, I think, think of you as their father. One day you're going to retire. Or one day, all of us die. Ninety miles away in Miami, Cuban emigres wish for Fidel's imminent collapse, but the island's university students who volunteer to take a two-week 'vacation' in the fields don't see trouble brewing in Paradise.