[SmokingJoe]

Great article.

[Pollster1]

Great article . . . with one serious typo:

Can any sane person claim that given that record – and given Cuba's expenditures on public education – literacy would not have been eradicated in a few short years?

Should say: "Can any sane person claim that given that record – and given Cuba's expenditures on public education – illiteracy would not have been eradicated in a few short years?"