Amidst the Controversy
Lots of people have found time to revisit the debate over Cuba over the past few days. Re-fighting old battles, Fidel the dictator vs Cuba the socialist redoubt. The real debate, for me anyway, is this: Cuba is a small island with a dictator, a corrupt bureaucratic elite, with no valuable natural resources, that basically sells tourism and sugar. And it still provides better healthcare, education and housing for its poor than any other developing nation.
The point is not to celebrate Cuba's ability to provide this (after all, a prison with a good infirmary is still a prison). The point is to ask why the rest of the world cannot.
