>Trouble is the free market in these developing countries is often a disaster for humanitarian reasons. A few become vastly wealthy, pull the levers of power and crush the masses.
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>ROFL and LOL!!!!! And Castro was much better for Cuba HOW?

Well he DID gt the mafia out of Cuba and squashed a corrupt government that was in bed with them, and has excellent heath care for everyone.

>Really? Isn't the Castro family worth close to a billion dollars?

No. Forbes put it at 90 million. Still a lot of money of course - but a drop in the bucket compared to a billion.

> And what about all the people that were jailed or executed by him?

What about all the people that were jailed or killed by the corrupt government and mafia figures that he got rid of? You're making the assumption that things would of been better for the Cuban people had their not been a revolution - and of course there is no way to know that for sure. What we do know for sure is that life would of been better for the Cuban people had we lifted the embargo decades ago - and we also know for sure that it was stupid to have it because it didn't get rid of Castro - all it did was harm the people of the island.

>If Cuba were such a great place to live under Castro, why did so many people risk their lives trying to get to Florida in rafts?

At the moment it's because people are worried the recent reopening of relations between Havana and Washington, D.C., will end the so-called wet foot, dry foot policy that allows Cubans to live legally in the U.S. if they successfully make it to shore. The common reason you hear from those who have risked the trip is because "there is nothing there" - which is of course the fault of the USA's because of the embargo.
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