[Cuban statement said the island is not a racist society, saying blacks have opportunities “like never before in our country.”]
One recent reform allows Cuban blacks to where protective eye goggles and leather gloves with gauntlets when cutting sugar cane.
From searching on this post I found this delicous 2008 adticle + comments, “Castro’s Cuba was no place for a socialist like me”. http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/514326/castroandx2019s-cuba-was-no-place-for-a-socialist-like-me.thtml