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I went to Cuba out of curiousity and to see what communism has wrought. I wanted to see it all with my own eyes before it is gone and not through the filters provided by politics and the media. I saw a once-beautiful island in ruin, the people starving, children turning to prostitution to feed the family, a complete lack of knowledge about the rest of the world because people can only know what Fidel teaches. No newspapers (just the few-page Granma which prints the only news Cubans are allowed to read), no books, no food, no dreams. People can't own anything - the government owns everything - so no one can dream about a home or a wonderful job or a fancy car or leaving the country to go on holiday or anything else capitalism and democracy bring. Starving dogs roam the streets. Skinny children (and adults) beg money. Every city is in ruin and food is rationed - and a normal westerner wouldn't eat it anyway. The average person earns eight dollars a month and poverty is shocking. What Fidel did to this land is a sin and he should burn in hell for what he has done. I will never forget the lovely people I met, all suffering and yearning for a better future after Fidel goes away, nor will I forget the devestation of a land that once was magnificent - juding from the palatial buildings crumbling to the ground with people living inside. After seeing Haiti and some eastern European countries and poverty elsewhere as well, what I saw in Cuba shocked and appalled me as it's worse than in those places in comparison to what once was in Cuba, and now I can only think God damn Fidel for his crimes against his own people.

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