schoolboy fantasy picked up from God knows where
Heard first hand from someone who lives there. Not just from a tourist that see all the good stuff.

"Of course, not everyone in Cuba receives substandard health care. In fact, senior Cuban Communist Party officials and those who can pay in hard currency can get first-rate medical services any time they want."
http://www.canfnet.org/Issues/medicalapartheid.htm

"When we meet in May for a drink on Obispo Street, changes surround us. A nightclub around the corner, El Bohemio, has been closed. Police stand outside in larger numbers. Even the bar's usual hipster jazz band is gone. In their place stand five older Cubans who, according to the bartender, "played in the cemetery before coming here." It turns out we were lucky to have music at all: I later learn that most of the young, talented bands can no longer play in the bars, for reasons unknown."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_4_35/ai_105644258/pg_3

"We are not free, he says. "Listen to me when I tell you that."
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y03/sep03/22e5.htm

"The residential housing crisis in Cuba is common knowledge: crumbling properties, crowding, and constant subdivision of limited space. The Castro government has also created a legal mishmash of competing claims by following diverse internal policies, some of which supposedly granted a murky title to housing. It has also used housing grants as a reward for loyalty. If we add the prior owners' confiscation claims, and take a purely legalistic approach, there is no question that lawyers can be kept busy for decades while real estate deteriorates and collapses."
http://www.futurodecuba.org/Dynamic%20Solution%20March%205%202004.htm


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