A balance of the Cuban Revolution

The great lie of progress

One of the most repeated arguments by the regime is that Cuba is on track to solve problems such as food, transportation, housing, and recreation. Really? It is ironic to talk about solving problems that they themselves have created. Since 1959, we Cubans have witnessed how these areas, instead of improving, have deteriorated to unsustainable levels.

Food: Where is the food?

The Cuban people have been surviving for decades with a rationing booklet that doesn't even guarantee the most basic foods. While the high-ranking officials of the Party enjoy sumptuous meals, the average Cuban spends hours in endless lines to get bread, eggs, or a little oil. The promises to improve agriculture are empty words when the fields are abandoned, the machinery is obsolete, and the farmer is caught between absurd regulations and a bureaucracy that prevents them from thriving.

Transportation: a daily nightmare

Transportation in Cuba is a mockery. For most Cubans, moving from one place to another is an almost impossible task. Buses are scarce, old, and overcrowded; taxis are a luxury; and let's not talk about the trains, which seem to have come out of a museum of antiquities. Meanwhile, the government allocates its resources to maintain an elite that lives comfortably, traveling in modern cars and benefiting from privileges that are beyond the reach of the average citizen.

Housing: a country in ruins

Housing is another of the regime's great failures. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans live in deplorable conditions, in buildings that are falling apart, where the danger of collapse is a constant threat. Every time it rains, many Cubans fear that the roof of their homes will give way and end up burying them. The promises to build new housing remain on paper and in ghost projects, while the few who manage to secure a decent home do so through influence or by paying in hard currency.

Education and health: two pillars in decline

The Cuban regime always boasts about its education and health systems, presenting them as the great victories of the Revolution. But the reality, as always, is very different. Cuban education is a constant brainwashing, where students are indoctrinated from a young age with the regime's rhetoric. Yes, education is "free," but at the cost of sacrificing freedom of thought and expression. Furthermore, schools are in deplorable conditions, teachers are poorly paid and demotivated, and the quality of teaching is increasingly low.

Public health, once a source of pride, has fallen into a deep crisis. Hospitals lack basic supplies, doctors are forced to work under inhumane conditions, and access to medicines is almost nonexistent for the average Cuban. Meanwhile, the regime prefers to export doctors as commodities to earn foreign currency, exploiting them abroad while clinics on the island crumble.

Human capital: the great scam

The discourse that Cuba has turned its human capital into the main productive force of the country is yet another fallacy. If anything, the Revolution has destroyed the talent and capability of its people, forcing millions of Cubans to seek a better life outside the island. Cuba is not "a university," as the regime often tries to make believe; it is a prison for critical thinking and personal development. Cubans are trapped in a system that does not allow them to prosper, where opportunities are reserved for those who blindly submit to the regime.

What do we have left?

The only escape for Cubans has historically been to flee the country. The Cuban diaspora is the living testimony of the failure of the Revolution. Millions of Cubans have left the island in search of the freedom and prosperity that the regime has denied them. Those who remain on the island barely survive, amid endless queues, an unstoppable black market, and a repression that suffocates any attempt at change.

The Cuban regime has shown, time and again, that it has no intention of improving the lives of its people. Every promise of economic "reforms" or "openings" is simply another desperate attempt to buy time and perpetuate its power. Meanwhile, the Cuban people continue to pay the price of this failed experiment.

A call to action

The Revolution has failed. There is no future in a system that is upheld by repression, lies, and poverty. The solution will not come from more empty promises or speeches about a future "splendor." It will come from the determined action of the Cuban people to demand their freedom and build a country where prosperity and well-being are a reality, not an unattainable dream.

The Cuban Revolution has stolen too much from us. It is time to reclaim what belongs to us.