May be going out on a limb here with this one, and I hope you will understand the good intent even if you decide to incinerate me by the end.
I hear what you are all saying and I agree there are bad people in the world. As I read the daily news I can't help but notice how my retirement account is going to hell, my house is losing value, and my liquor evaporates every time the boys come to town.
I am sure we don't all get to see the whole picture in Cuba. I am certain we don't all share the same painful personal past with them. But I did spend a snorkelling week with a sailing captain from the Keys who frequents the island. He says the people as a whole are magnificent and love what they have. According to him, they don't know about our economic struggles, job markets, and such ... or care. In his visits there he has become very endeared to them and finds many who do not think they are in such a terrible place. All I'm saying is that I hope when one bad man passes, another worse one won't come along.
I hope that any future changes there won't send them to the other extreme and end up leaving them longing for the quieter more peaceful days. Would it be that great if the whole country turned into another overpopulated tourist island covered in polluting factories full of overworked and underpaid folks? I can't see that helping the lines for free health care.
I hope they all experience wonderous new freedoms soon, and all the prosperity they can handle without becoming a people prostituted by the rest of the free world. We try hard and we mean well, but we are not always the best thing that happens to every other country in the world. One thing is certain, some things there are going to change one way or the other and we will be watching history change soon.
