| To answer the title to this article I want to reveal | | | | which deprives the people of their basic right and |
| some facts about the Cuban government. You can | | | | represses all forms of political dissent. This system is |
| then draw your own conclusion as to whether our | | | | still in effect today. |
| current government in the USA is beginning to look | | | | There is much corruption and abuse of people in |
| like that of the socialist government in Cuba. | | | | Cuba still today, with the government getting richer |
| Cuba nationalized public healthcare, utilities, and the | | | | and the people getting poorer. The government |
| education systems. | | | | owns the tourist industry, including national parks and |
| They have a program of neighborhood spying called | | | | museums. |
| "Committees For the Defense of the Revolution". | | | | The military are the only ones allowed to own guns in |
| Computers are just now being allowed to be used in | | | | Cuba. The people have very few, or no jobs, and a |
| Cuba, previously to 2008 you would have been | | | | once prosperous Havana is in perpetual poverty, with |
| thrown in jail there for using one. All television and | | | | lack of housing and consumer goods. The elite and |
| radio stations are government controlled as well as | | | | military of that country are the only ones who |
| newspapers and journalism. | | | | prosper. |
| Cuba has unlimited access to abortion. Right after | | | | Cuba has propaganda and lies on every level. The |
| universal healthcare was implemented, thousands of | | | | governmental socialist system in Cuba rules with |
| doctors left the country. Doctors that have stayed | | | | disinformation, repression, and even terror against |
| are payed poorly, they have poor medical facilities, | | | | peaceful human rights defenders, and even citizens |
| lack of medicines, and proper equipment. | | | | who complain. People who are known to promote |
| Education in Cuba has a strong political and ideological | | | | human rights are closely monitored by the |
| emphasis and students are taught to have a | | | | government, and are put into prison. Religious |
| commitment to the goals of the Cuban government. | | | | persecution is commonplace there also. |
| Their education and cultural ideology is based on | | | | On a recent cable news broadcast it was stated that |
| Marxism. | | | | Fidel Castro is now praising Barack Obama for his |
| Cuba has a planned economy ran by the government. | | | | healthcare reform. |
| The wages which are low, are paid by the | | | | Our government has recently made changes such as |
| government. | | | | taking over major financial institutions, the auto |
| Citizens of Cuba have to watch what they say and | | | | industries, as well as healthcare. Other proposals of |
| do, as they are closely monitored by the CDR, | | | | expanding our government are on the horizon. |
| (Committees for the Defense of the Revolution), | | | | I wrote this with the opportunity for the reader to |
| with files on each individual, in each block, of each | | | | draw their own conclusion with the facts given, as to |
| town. It is against the law to say or do anything | | | | whether America's government is beginning to look |
| "counter revolutionary." Castro had set up a system | | | | more like Cuba's Socialist government. |