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said he had to send thread to the "socialist paradise of Cuba" so that his relative can get stitched up after surgery on her "wonderful government healthcare plan."

I have heard first hand stories of Cubans about the People's Republic of Paradise. These stories will make you ill. One woman told me that she went to Cuba to visit relatives. She was determined to teach some English to the children. Yet by the end of the trip, the children would only say "Oh my God". This happened because as she walked around the shanty villages, the stark poverty was continuous and dire - complete shared misery. She would turn a corner, gaze at the shear proliferation of poverty and say "Oh my God".

That story stuck in my head.