@BillRM,
I'm not saying that Cuba is perfect, far from it, but since the Cuban revolution, America has supported, and funded, much worse regimes in Latin America.
It's the double standards I can't stand.
Why are you so quiet about the CIA coup in Chile that installed Pinochet?
Quote:The most prevalent forms of state-sponsored torture that Chilean prisoners endured were electric shocks, waterboarding, beatings, and sexual abuse. Another common mechanism of torture employed was "disappearing" those who were deemed to be potentially subversive because they adhered to leftist political doctrines. The tactic of "disappearing" the enemies of the Pinochet regime was systematically carried out during the first four years of military rule. The "disappeared" were held in secret, subjected to torture and were often never seen again. Both the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (Valech Report) and the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report) approximate that there were around 30,000 victims of human rights abuses in Chile, with 27,255 tortured and 2,279 executed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_violations_in_Pinochet%27s_Chile
If America had accepted the revolution and allowed Cuba to trade normally it would most likely be a model of democracy today.
99.9% of Cuba's problems stem from America's unjust treatment of a sovereign nation.