My friend Paul English is back from 10 days in Cuba as an inquisitive tourist. He reports:

I came away from my trip very anti-Castro. I did not expect the degree of this. When I planned the trip, I knew about the good things in Cuba today (music, health, education, lack of crime etc) but had been perhaps naive about the level of bad things to discover. This was jarring to experience in person.

For those of us who consider Castro to be villified in the US — the bad exaggerated and the good ignored — this is an uncomfortable piece to read. But, hell, that’s why we have an Internet, isn’t it?

Lots of photos, too.

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