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Cuba Libertaria #3: On the situation in Cuba today
During our stay on the island we were able to see how the Castro regime has sunk the population into great material, cultural and political poverty. We ourselves saw 90% of the hospitals in Cuba closed, the official reason being that they are under restoration. The remaining hospitals that were open are almost exclusively at the service of those Venezuelans who, thanks to the arrangement with the Chávez government, travel free with a companion in order to be treated there. The Cuban government even favours the emigration of doctors to Venezuela and the figures are spectacular. At the same time, the population of Cuban has literally been left without medical aid or medicines. And this at a time when we are witnessing a resurgence of an epidemic of mental illness that may be at its greatest for over a decade. As is known, this illness - in its two versions, outward and internal - is recognized to have its origin in denutrition.

Castro, like Franco
Since we fought against the dictatorship of Franco we consider it to be a moral duty to bring our solidarity to those, that suffer because of their struggle for the same freedom that we, anti-franquist, used to fight for.

Cuba: Socialist paradise or Castro's fiefdom?
As Camus says, a deep sense of emptiness is felt by all those who wish for a revolution leading to the creation of a society which is classless and truly socialist. As the history of the 20th century has unfolded we have witnessed the repeated failure of vanguards and leaders to create the society for which the true-hearted revolutionaries have fought and died. Not so long ago most of the left held up the Soviet Union as an example of Socialism or something with some socialist features. As the Eastern Bloc crumbled and the true horrors of sick states like Ceaucescu's Romania were exposed Cuba became the new Mecca for the left. What we find there is unfortunate and there is little to inspire us in the country which has had Fidel Castro at the wheel of power for over 30 years.

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