They only have the entire resto of the world to trade with, oil, farmland and a year around growing season, and 4 times the beaches of California, and they are beautiful Caribbean beaches.
Another blow, look at Iran. Other than putting up with BS from the Mullahs, the average person there has a good quality of life. Yet, they are under sanctions and no trade with the USA for 4 decades now.
We aren’t the cause of their misery.
The main reason communism doesn’t work is because the other systems don’t let them, because they won’t agree to get the life sucked out of them too.
Castro had his pleasure island while he made the Cuban people suffer.
He was just another criminal.
Fidel Castro is responsible for the mess in Cuba. The man was not intelligent enough to engineer an economy and a government beyond what he did. He had no more going for him than Che Guevara. They were both dolts! If Castro was anything other than a thug, the people would not be driving ‘53 Chevys. They have nothing and they want more. I understand. Biden and Ocasio-Cortez do not!