See, its easy to downplay their hardships when you only argue from anecdotal evidence. You know the struggles of Cubans and its good you air them but here you are downplaying the struggles of others because just like leftists who play apologist for Castro's regime you are alienated from their experience and motivated to downplay it for political points.
Do Cubans have to pay out the nose to be smuggled in by cartels? Are they scrutinized as much for deportation?
Look honestly you only argue from anecdotal experience which is obviously going to favor your biases and at this point we're going around in circles. That's not all bad, I think its good for people like you to reminds us of the daily hardships of Cubans, something that doesn't come across through cold hard data and metrics. I think part of the weakness of communist regimes is that often the centralized governments are blind to these daily realities of life under their rule in favor of the big picture metrics(which are distorted in many cases for a variety of reasons I'd rather not get into).
I'll concede that leftists outside of Cuba downplay the day to day struggle of Cubans and play apologist for Fidel too much. Its perfectly legitimate to shit on those leftists. But my point is Latin America is in general a shithole unfortunately and I don't think communism was the key factor in Cuba. Cuba would've been different kind of shithole had it never had a communist revolution but the determination of the US to dominate and exploit it would've taken it down a different but also dark path that other Latin American states find themselves on(egregious inequality, entrenched landed oligarchy, violence, elections plagued by corruption etc).
But yes, Cuba is overrated by leftists. Even self admitted communist Slavoj Zizek criticizes
Cuban communism as being pretty shit and mostly hyped up by nostalgic leftists as an alternative to the complete catastrophic disasters of other communist regimes like Maoist China and Stalinist Russia. Its fine to give the Devil his due but its also fair for you to point out most leftists would not want to live in Cuba as opposed to one of the developed market economies of the world. Its less shit than other communist countries and many Latin American countries but its no alternative to liberal democratic capitalism.
I've said what I want to say on the issue so have the last word and have a nice day.
