Yes, Cuba has actually delivered the goods. Astounding. Every other politician/general/megalomaniac/whatever who came to power in Cuba BEFORE Castro promised to deliver the goods (health care, land and jobs and education for the peasants, social justice). Not one of them kept those promises, although sometimes they tossed a few tiny crumbs to the populace, while selling out the island to foreign interests in either Spain or the USA.

ONLY Castro kept the promise. He ended illiteracy in every part of the island (in just 1 year!), provided schools to even the remotest peasant communities, provided free and excellent health care and education to everyone, and threw out the foreign moneyed interests that were robbing the country...that's not Communism...that's justice. He gave Cuba back to the Cubans. Rich Cubans didn't like it one bit, and most of them (and much of the middle class as well) left the island. They would love to come back, along with their mafia friends and their "lawyers, guns and money" (to quote Warren Zevon). I hope to God they never do.

It's the downside of Miami that is hell on earth, and the downside of Washington, L.A., Detroit, and whatever other big American city you could care to mention...you don't walk around in those neighborhoods after dark if you've got an iota of sense, now do you? Ever wonder why? Little or no social justice, and no pity either.