Can one of my leftist friends please explain to me why sentiments about Castro as a warrior for justice make sense as the high order bit?
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it's hard for me to take "education leader" seriously with stuff like this http://www.vox.com/2015/10/5/9434407/cuba-internet-explained-castro …
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and that article feels, at least to my eyes, to be fairly accurate and interested in truth.
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I know it's not definitive proof, but when I started studying Cuba years ago, these kinds of stories popped up often
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba#Contrasting_views_on_Cuba.27s_health_system … it seems like there's some to like but plenty to be disturbed about.
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That's not to defend it, but I think that's something often overlooked. They had been starved of external resources
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I think this is true, but doesn't explain going from ~$50MM to ~$100M in military spending since early 2000s. :/
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Cuba is known for sending doctors worldwide, life expectancy better than US. http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrist/2015/06/08/cubas-most-valuable-export-its-healthcare-expertise/#66dfe649325c …
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Fidel did bad things. However, US leads the world in incarceration, also claims right to torture.
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