Some brief searching of my own tells me that, while the unemployment numbers are roughly correct, the actual pay for those jobs are so low that they have a rough time actually being able to afford anything. Like, minimum wage is 2100 Cuban Pesos per month, but one set of clothing costs about 9700 on average.

https://horizontecubano.law.columbia.edu/news/calculating-cost-living-Cuba

As if the illegal embargo and the power infrastructure issues are unrelated 🙄

Human Rights Watch is part of The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex whose purpose is facilitating regime change.

Blackouts are certainly a thing, and for the middle class in USA that would be considered intolerable. However, for the poor in the USA who sometimes go without electricity for lack of payment, having access to healthcare and education in exchange for the occasional blackout might be worth the trade.

As for speaking out against the government, citizens may not be incarcerated for speaking out (unless it actually threatens the government such as Manning, Snowden, and Winner), other forms of control are used. Usually that means pervasive propaganda and pitting people against each other through the Culture War.

US has the highest incarceration per capita in the world, and it's far higher than Cuba. Meanwhile, the blockade of Cuba certainly does make things difficult for a small island. The fact that people of Cuba enjoy higher quality of life than Americans in many ways, shows how communism can persevere even under harshest conditions. Not the own you seem to think it is.

Yeah, really doing Cuba dirty by ignoring their military contributions to ending apartheid!

And all the hands in South America, including the Venezuelan takeover.

Vietnam won

yeah would've been better, I'm just resharing it

just ask Assange, Manning, or Snowden

Cuba already had a people's revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat is as firm as ever there.