What was the outcome of the Cuban Revolution?
The communist revolution in Cuba was a disaster, especially for the Cuban people. There was no free thought or artistic freedom. Anyone who dissented against Castro was jailed, tortured, and sometimes murdered. The Cuban people also lost their economic freedom and any chance of upward mobility. Their socialist economy has produced a scarcity of even the basic necessities of life. Most countries in the world trade with Cuba, but they still live in poverty unimagined in the U. S. All classes lost, except for the ruling communists. There are stores and hotels in Cuba for the rulers that ordinary Cuban citizens cannot even enter. Wonderful health care for all is also a myth. Their hospitals, except for the ones reserved for the ruling communists, are filthy and under supplied, and if a citizen is deemed too old to be of further use to the state, he or she is denied health care. Under Batista, who was no angel, Cubans never took the drastic steps to escape their homeland that are now common
