Cubasolidarity.com also put it rather succinctly, "Today's Latin America has some 225 million impoverished people, 90 million of whom are utterly destitute. There are 114 million children living in poverty, 60% of all children, with virtually no access to medical care or real education. Not one of them is Cuban. 50 million Latin American children are living on the streets, homeless. Not one of them is Cuban. (There are also one million homeless children in the United States.) Over 500,000 Latin American children die every year from preventable diseases. Not one of them is Cuban. There are 40 million totally illiterate people ""and many tens of millions more who are functionally illiterate""in Latin America today. Not one of them is Cuban. According to the International Labor Organization, 10 million of the Latin American children who are driven out of school by the imperative of working, end up in the prostitution and pornography rackets of the so-called sex industry! Not one of them is Cuban."
The revolution in Cuba survives today as much for that reason as any other. The United States has treated Latin America as its own, personal backyard to do with as it wished for over 100 years. In over 100 years, nearly all of Latin America has become a wasteland of impoverished, illiterate, backward people who suffer all the malaises that the US could possibly export. That is, all but Cuba. Though hundreds of millions of Latin Americans suffer the indignities of poverty forced upon them by the United States Latin American foreign policy, NONE OF THEM ARE CUBAN.
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