The real Cuba
Bella Thomas went to Cuba, and returned wondering why so many Western visitors continue to romanticise a place that, for ordinary people, remains synonymous with privation and tyranny. Did they - like Michael Moore - go only where their official guides took them, and speak to locals only in front of the regime’s minders?
Her portrayal in Prospect is pleasantly prolix, but poignant, perceptive and perspicuous.
Dude, didn’t you get the memo from North Korea? Communism’s paradise! And their health care kicks ass too… about as much as their secret police do :/
[…] for example, a wonder-filled PR job on the blessings of the Cuban socialised system. I’ve posted before on the inaccuracy of that particular bit of “journalism”. CNN apparently did the same, […]