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all "Latin America," etc., and claims that the average income was higher than anywhere else, etc.
Apparently they imagine no one's going to be able to prove differently because ordinary Americans can't get in and out of Cuba, to speak to any Cuban citizens to learn the difference, and to indifferent to even start trying to do any research.
Life WAS sweet for those elite living at the expense of the vast majority of Cubans. Cheap labor, a captive work force too poor to get up and relocate, which had to live from seasonal work harvesting and planting sugar cane, etc. had no political power whatsoever. The only people who had any "say" were the landowners, business owners, politicians, professional class, a tiny sector of the population. Everyone else was screwn.
They're really lucky they made it out of the country without being lynched, themselves!
I'll bet those stories of how they all stood up to the revolutionary government and had to flee get wilder and more unbelievable each passing year. I've heard so many of them myself, and I don't even live there! It appears every single older first wave Cuban claims he was a threat to the revolutionary Cuban government, he was so outspoken, he wrote anti-government signs on buildings, he told off Cuban officials, he, as in Jorge Mas Canosa's pathetic yarn, had such towering gifts of oratory that he made an eloquent speech which had Cuban government people stunned, shaking their heads in wonder, and they let him go after he was arrested. It would just drive a sane man wild hearing this crappola day after day after day!
It could be they all became embarrassed and overwrought as time went by and they realized that the U.S. government was not going to go overthrow the Cuban revolution for them and put them right back in charge of the country, and they started feeling awkward facing the idea they might have to stay here, after all. It could be those whoppers they tell are efforts to cover up their inability to simply refocus and meet life here day by day without the fantasy of returning to an island which has no place for them now as the big fish in a small pond, as Cuba has progressed from the feudal system there in the 1950's which only allowed the elite any shelter, any comfort.
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