PPP per capita is 5x lower in Cuba than in the US. In other words, salaries are low and people struggle to afford things in Cuba, whereas the average citizen in the US can afford much more.

Yes, there is a long history but fortunately we live in the present.

Restricting peoples opinions is a very horrible thing to do. It doesn't matter if it's to "preventing a capitalist counterrevolution" which is you a bunch of bullshit made up because they want to repres people.