If you were lucky enough, they wouldn't shoot you in front your family. That and the US mafia wants its play ground back also. And they can read granma as they roll cigars. Wow, literacy has done them proud. In all these years that Fidel has been in office Cuba is still pretty much the same- only shabbier, and there is even less food to go around, and virtually no infrastructure.
Sanitation is primitive.
Things were somewhat better when the USSR was spoon-feeding Cuba in exchange for sugar and mercenaries, but strangely enough, Cubans were still fleeing in droves. I even read an old glowing article about how proud Fidel was of his country's dairy production years ago. Castro is nothing but a parasitic Batista-equivalent with bad taste in clothing and virtually no grasp of economics. I guess that's going to be the answer to the NATO expansion east. Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management.