"When you take away peoples' rights and freedoms you better give them something in return "
When a people has lived i mass poverty and repression throughout its history, any advancement will need to be made without outside interference - shortly after the seizure of power by the revolutionaries, Cuba has suffered a barrage of deadly opposition from its nearest neighbour.
Cuba was virtually a slave state where American tourists went to watch the women be fucked by donkeys - should those waiting in the wings get their way, that is what it will return to.
It is only recently that Obama has lifted the ban on rum and cigars - he proposed that the lifting of the rest of the 50 year old embargo be considered by congress - your friend Trump is unlikely to allow that to happen.
There may be plenty of countries who don't rule by "terror" (odd word for a supporter of the world's most dangerous terrorist State), but there none anywhere on the planet who have been under threat by the World's most powerful state who have constantly attempted to bring down its leadership through terrorist measures and have used nearly all of that half century to starve the people into submission.
Cuba has its democratic shortcomings, but which country on the planet doesn't?
It's threatening nearest neighbour has just elected a fascist, racist, misogynist, politically-illiterate thug as president, and Britain will follow that thug just like a pet poodle - how 'democratic' is that?
Jim Carroll