Mark at Eclipse Ramblings has made no secret of his disdain for Castroism (Stalinist low level thuglike political system and Maoist agrarian economy). Click on the link, read it, and follow the links elsewhere.
Cuba is the model of poverty and is not likely to ever recover until Castro dies. Then there will be the question of the next regime and the direction it takes. Will it stay the course? Will it continue to sink into further despair? Or will it begin to see the err of its ways?
Castro really hurt the Cuban people, when he de-westernized it. He took the main industry, the largest source of revenue (tourism) away. He made reasonably well off people into paupers. He made poor people, even poorer. (Sorry, sugar and cigars are not enough to sustain much of a standard of living. Especially when the owner is the socialist state.)
He did it l by systematically eliminating all people that he didn't trust, especially those that had the ability to think for themselves. Then, he shut the western world off and turned toward a model of freedom and economic stability, the USSR. What a brilliant genius. What a visionary.
Most of the former communist world (at least) has converted to some form of free market and returned some aspects of business back over to the business class. But of the former alliance of economic disasters, North Korea and Cuba have staunchly refused to leave the 50s (the dark age of socialism) and join the new millenium.
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