Cuba is a fit and healthy population. There continues to be housing for all, however sub-standard one might regard it to be. None of them was Cuban. I tested that claim with everyone I could, and none could think of an exception. Education continues to be available to all and free though University and vocational studies.
Health care is available to all.
Ironically, there is an abundance of doctors and nurses and a shortage of medicine. Boathouses with thatched roofs protect fishers boats. There is considerable frustration and reaction to this control because it is often felt to discourage local and personal initiative to improve living conditions. For example, in 1992 the Cuban government legalized universal access to USA dollars. This balancing act of benefits and losses in the revolutionary process is on everyone s mind.