What is life like in Cuba after Fidel Castro? BBC News

[@digger663]

I wondee how Cuba would be if the US had not had such a harsh embargo on the country..surely this hurt them?

[@juliovaldes1377]

The embargo is one thing but in Cuban governors use the embargo as a excuse for everything but the embargo don’t excuse the lack of cleanliness in the country or the corruption with in the Cuban government or it does not excuse the oppression put on its Cuban people put on by the Cuban government.. like the lack of freedom of speech and so on.. also Cubans only have 6 Channels and in all of them they try to stuff communist and misleading history facts down your mouth.. and in school they brain wash kids and force them in to “el servicio” in other words the military.. is that because of the embargo as well??? That’s the truth! Cuba sucks ass BECAUSE of the communist dictatorship

[@itos191]

@Krónikathat code states its only illegal if they try to overthrow the government by force or violence. Socialist and communist parties are allowed in the democratic process, and I think that's much better than having parties trying to overthrow a government through violence.

[@itos191]

@Krónika what do you mean my history

[@joshdinjar8503]

@@itos191 idk if you realised this, but modern capitalism and democracy came about through the violent and forceful overthrow of feudalism

[@blitzfox8989]

Julio Porras bla bla bla "COmUnISaHm iS BaD" bla bla bla. Just shut up you imperialist slave master

[@brigvadirgeneral]

I speak Spanish but Cubans speak Spanish hella fast

[@rosie4302]

Pixal Newbie Not all of them, that’s just a steretype

[@zodiacqueengames408]

My mom is from Cuba and she speaks HELLA FAST

[@gambigambigambi]

This is due to their accent that requires to eliminate the S sounds: "los gatos son los animales favoritos de ustedes" "lo gato son lo animale favorito de utede" There is really a huge difference is speaking fast due to S elimination.

[@genesismedina6505]

A spark of being from the Caribbean

[@MrTimersHell]

they call me the flash for a reasson

[@sampokemppainen3041]

These kids are the real children of the revolution.

[@Wackaz]

YES! Thank you for saying this, perfectly said :)

[@carlosramos5256]

sampo: Too bad they cannot tell what they really think

[@carlosramos5256]

@@oliroly2221 OH ! And who told you what the Cuban citizens think ? The tooth fairy ? With that comment, I would hide under the bed

[@carlosramos5256]

Or maybe it was fidelov himself, that returned from the eternal fire to tell you. As usual, he told you a lie. fidelov was TOTALLY uncapable of telling a single truth

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

@@oliroly2221 Ah, ¿ eres de Cuba ? Entonces eres un comunista traidor, una cyberclaria, vendida al kastrismo por media libra de mantequilla y puesta aquí por diaz canelo para meter propaganda y mentiras a los bobos para engañarlos

[@wilsonfisk6626]

People criticize Fidel Castro. Compare Cuba to other Latin American countries. Political instability, drug wars, no electricity. Can the same be said about Cuba?

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Branden Wedwick So is every other Latin American country. Look at Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Mexico.

[@juandiegojinestarojas8756]

Costa Rica, Panama, Chile and Uruguay are doing great on those areas you mention...

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Juan Diego Jinesta Rojas It's only recently that those countries are experiencing a period of political and economic stability. With the exception of Costa Rica, those countries were under the rule of dictators and military juntas for the majority of the 20th Century.

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Juan Diego Jinesta Rojas It's only recently that those countries are experiencing a period of political and economic stability. With the exception of Costa Rica, those countries were under the rule of dictators and military juntas for the majority of the 20th Century.

[@VJBlues]

What are you waiting for to move over there ... ??? But ... there is a catch, you have to live not like a tourist or a foreigner, you have to live the life of a regular and ordinary Cuban citizen. Do you take the challenge ... ??? I was that forty years ago, and I have travel and backpacking all over South America and I haven't found no one who really dare to move. All they do is talk to hide their anti - America envy and hate.

[@AriShinskyTheEquestrian]

This is what they're able to do *despite* a decades long ongoing economic blockade. Imagine how much more they could achieve if that were lifted.

[@carlosramos5256]

talm: And what did they achieve ? Starve to death ?

[@orionlavinmartinez3186]

@@carlosramos5256 free healthcare, a lower death by starvation number per capita than the US, no people living in the streets, high literacy,...

[@carlosramos5256]

@@orionlavinmartinez3186 And where is that ? In your backyard ?

[@orionlavinmartinez3186]

@@carlosramos5256 😑

[@castrocuba4937]

@@carlosramos5256 so youre gonna ignore facts and turn your head the whole time, and then act like you know something huh

[@thebiggestcontroversy5881]

the real cuban are in cuba not in miami,USA

[@camilomilfuegos7164]

The Cuban LGBT community in Dade County supports Trump

[@TheySchlendrian]

@@camilomilfuegos7164 Sexuality doesnt matter when youre stupid.

[@jacob.barr01]

@Tony Martin you are mislead by the right wing media. I've been in Cuba and I even met castro and believe me Cuba is doing Great than what the media shows. Those Cubans in Miami are refugees and their ancestors were slave owners who didn't care of anyone else's welfare.

[@jacob.barr01]

@Tony Martin I own up to it but I'm not from the South and my great great grandpa helped John Brown's fight against those kind of people.

[@karlos_marxican-godless-co1712]

@@camilomilfuegos7164 gtfo troll

[@YorkshireSpud]

See BBC, Cuban's don't mind their President. So please stop spreading hate about Cuba.

[@mythoughts3083]

YorkshireSpud he was a dictator that killed millions

[@PunksterOS]

Is that a sarcastic joke mate? Castro was a despotic dictator. The BBC and World Leaders have been praising his life, like he was some Revolutionary Saint and I assure you, that he was not.

[@Mr.Unacceptable]

Why not? The pope and church did it for mother theresa. White washed all her crimes against humanity and made her a saint. There were no hospitals they were torture chambers. The feminist marxist regressives have their own pope doctrine god and devils. Why no their own saints? Just like a good old fashioned religion.

[@trollmaster5668]

YorkshireSpud if anything hurt Cuba it's the embargo the man loved his people

[@rgrrpm]

Keep it that way is that the internet arrived in 2015 for being 50 years frozen in time psss girl here with 15 days of work I bought a car and I did not go to university because I have to spend the army forced in Cuba, now tell me in With your career in Cuba in how many years will you have a car or at least something similar?, Keep it up so when the world is over is q in Cuba will begin to arrive the cars of 2016 q by chance there is not even a mustang of 2005 q shame There is only one Chevy camaro from 2008 throughout the country, lol,they continue if with their "revolution" follow the word revolution means REVOLUTION !!!! Do not stay frozen in time ok

[@leninonacid2358]

Cuba also helped African countries to obtain their independency! 🇨🇺

[@beckyroque8950]

Y que resolvimos con eso, eso nos hizo mas pobres ni pasta de dientes tenemos.

[@Wackaz]

Yes!

[@lazaroa7288]

What independence??? Angola is a miserable dump of communists corruption! 3rd world!

[@commander_expendable]

@@lazaroa7288 Angola hasn't been Communist for 20 years, and was taken over by a liberal dictatorship

[@orionlavinmartinez3186]

@@beckyroque8950 mijo eso no es por culpa de Africa, y tu lo sabes

[@gopalkumar-kn7ie]

BBC would do well to show what is life in UK under the new British government.

[@thegreatonecometh200]

exactly !!! the same here in america since trump !! hate crimes are through the roof here ! always harping on cuban human rights ! with all that wiki leaks has put out on the uk and america we should be the last to judge such things and we are still doing it in syria and sudan and pakistan and afghanistan and yemen and they have the nerve to whine about what castro did in the 70s and 80s ?

[@245-TRIOXIN]

thegreatonecometh200 Che Guevara was a murderer, a racist, and a homophobe.

[@ucbookman]

The "champions of liberty and human rights" (US & UK) never investigate themselves.

[@owl2944]

@@245-TRIOXIN che was many things but he wasn't a racist

[@245-TRIOXIN]

He was.

[@hkiti7612]

Việt Nam 🇻🇳- 🇨🇺 Cuba

[@turtlecoal]

So thats why so many white cubans left, they were no longer the opresser class. Let cubans in cuba speak and the truth is revealed

[@dorainfante2214]

turtlecoal let people in Cuba speak the actual truth and see how the entire working class gets fired and a part them gets thrown in jail.

[@kreesod]

Dora, yeah, they were all clearly lying lmao

[@BB-rj8ln]

turtlecoal dont talk about what you dont know. blacks have always been a big part of our demographics in the capital and eastern coastal areas. white cubans are in the interior.

[@stephanieramas4859]

turtlecoal don't get Cuba confuse with the US we are not in a race war

[@1943rfagan]

Or maybe there was a harsh dictator who killed civilians that opposed him... But hey! At least Now they're free starve and live in poverty in a period of complete technological stagnation without their "white oppressors" who were smart enough to gtfo and move to their superior white western countries.

[@whatamalike]

This is what hyper capitalists and imperialists seem to forget; the revolution in cuba has benefited the vast majority of people in the country despite the shortages (primarily caused by the blockade of course). As the guy about 30 seconds in outlines: if it weren't for the revolution i'd be a slave. The revolution has provided serious benefits to the people of Cuba regardless of western propaganda. The BBC, to their credit, have literally provided nothing but talking heads; firmly neutral. They're not like commercial media or worse like Turning Point USA etc.

[@JohnDoe-wi1oy]

bbc are completely left wing mate. hence this positive video.

[@JackDSquat]

It’s not because of the revolution that he’s not a slave, slavery would’ve ended anyways whether or not Cuba was communist

[@armedhobo6398]

Hahahahahahaha.

[@sebastienholmes548]

Wow, your delusional.

[@Jens0880]

So blacks are slaves in similar countries who have not had a socialist revolution?

[@dawnsacks5161]

I was just in Cuba down and Santiago de Cuba. did not see rampant begging or homelessness like in the USA or Canada for that matter. What people need to remember is that prior to the revolution Americans and American organized crime ran Havana. The people of Cuba were illiterate. Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates and education rates in the world. What I saw was a lot of hospitals. Children are all in school and in the tourist areas they were doing pretty well for themselves. Yes a lot of Cuba is pretty rundown. But visit Haiti or the outskirts of the resort areas in the Dominican republic and you will see that Cuba has it really good in comparison.

[@maxamphetamines]

and if it weren't for the embargos by the US, Cuba would be even better.

[@dawnsacks5161]

Like Detroit ? With homeless people everywhere? Cuba provides food for everyone. Received dental care in Cuba and it was excellent. Yes the equipment was old but was very professional. If the Americans remained only they would be rich and the people would still be poor and exploited.

[@dawnsacks5161]

Ludd Zarko have you been to Cuba? I have and have seen it first hand. No homeless sleeping in the streets. And by the way I live in Canada so I have good legal drugs.

[@beckyroque8950]

But do not compare Cuba with its neighbors , we always were better than all of them together.We used to employed their people. We know we can do much much better and keep all what you see.Look what we did in Miami. How many Cubans in USA do you see homeless? Is true young people know how to read and write ( classes are highly Marxist inclined so when you graduate you are lacking knowledge), but we were better than most of the countries in America in this department this is in our DNA and some of the world after a devastating war of independence that destroyed the whole country.Only in 56 years our indicators were goods.Today schools and hospitals are crumbling as the whole country, the infrastructure and roads have no maintenance for longtime and need a lot of attention the country looks like is abandon and we know we can be better everything is neglected . pharmacies

[@beckyroque8950]

Pharmacies shelves are empties and the nation has a huge internal and external debt.the whole infrastructure is neglected for years of expenditure outside financing and participating in wars that bring nothing to the island just to the backup the government reputation while the country is abandon

[@Chrisallengallery]

Everyone should research everything about Cuba and Fidel Castro before forming an opinion. BBC is showing a very small sliver of life there.

[@mythoughts3083]

Devils Advocate there showing the good side ish the mofo was a dictator that killed millions

[@Chrisallengallery]

Zodiac K9 Exactly,

[@blazednlovinit]

Well, he killed about 100,000, I'm not defending the man but it's important to be correct, there's no need for exaggeration, most people can agree killing (especially on this scale) is wrong.

[@notbadsince97]

I know right. Where are the literacy schools and the hospitals built in the poorest parts of Cuba?

[@PrivateAmCitizen]

They are showing a lie, the lie those that were indoctrinated in Marxist schools are living today. I know I was in the same schools when I lived there. My family and I spent 4 years awaiting the Visa to come to the US as a marked citizen. The Cuban militia and the Comite Para La Defensa De La Revolucion, will try to make your life a living hell when they learn you have applied for a Visa to leave for the US. Look up, google 'Cuba CDR' this is a system of rats, a network of informers made out of citizens on the island. There is one household per square block who spies on other citizens in exchange for preferential treatment.

[@cake_9510]

This is actually making me cry a bit. These people are living their lives and are grateful for what's been done for their people, and it keeps getting better as time passes from what I can tell since more equality is being brought into the picture

[@musicaquecalma4134]

cake 9510 Look, Cuba is a prison island; where expressing your opinion against the government system CAN COST YOU TO GO TO PRISON FOR MANY YEARS Do you know what that means? It means that if you are in college you have to LIE so that you DO NOT get expelled; If you are a worker, you have to LIE so that they don't expel you from work: Even on the block where you live, they can get you involved with the police. The Cuban people have been under a communist military government for 64 years, which ENSLAVED them and DESTROYED the country!!!!!

[@FreddyNjuakom]

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[@kirkpatterson4037]

What I like about Cuba is they are still family first and most other country's are money, expensive cars and big houses first. In Cuba a nosey person won't do well. If it's not yours mind your own business. Love it.

[@Cinnam0nr0ll]

What do you mean? In Cuba everyone is in each other business...lol

[@mannylopez15986]

Yeah right!!

[@Cinnam0nr0ll]

@@mannylopez15986 Nobody is nosey they're spies...big difference...lol

[@mannylopez15986]

@@Cinnam0nr0ll Nosey, spies and snitches.

[@Cinnam0nr0ll]

@@mannylopez15986 Ain't that the truth? Kirk doesn't sound like a person who knows wtf he's talking about. He's not Cubanoooo.

[@FratFerno]

In 2016, you could compliment Cuba without others assuming you like police states. In 2020, Bernie Sanders - for one - can't.

[@mattysav4627]

They have completely democratic elections with multiple people to choose from

[@NoWay1969]

"Hopefully good changes," not if the incoming US administration has anything to say about it. Not if the Republicans get their way.

[@tlotmb77bmail6]

That's right f......r Ask God to save your soul ... do it today ...

[@kimobrien.]

Republicans and Democrats both steal form the working class to keep their rotten system going. It a bipartisan shell game. Reagan signed the first immigrant amnesty bill. Clinton ended "Welfare as we know it." Because Reagan could only provide the necessary rhetoric. Jimmy "Human Rights" Carter voted to keep Pol Pot seated at the UN. Bush pretending to be a compassionate conservative signed the Medicare Part D bill.

[@NoWay1969]

@@kimobrien. You're making a false equivalence. Reagan lied and started a war in Central America, illegally and against the will of the American people while literally causing the drug problem he was ostensibly fighting. Bush 41 restarted the forever war with the first (unwarranted) Iraq invasion. His son lied us back into Iraq. Trump has killed more Americans through his incompetence than the other killed in all their wars combined. The Dems ain't perfect, but they're a damn sight better than the Republicans.

[@FCBanes]

She meant changes from inside Cuba. Reform has to start from within or nothing will work.

[@kimobrien.]

@@NoWay1969 Sure Black Democrats in the cities know they are holding off a French revolution while Republicans are busy counting pennies and food stamps. Its the natural workings of capitalism that are creating more and more crisis which they haven't got the slightest idea of how to solve.

[@crossfire7474]

Cubans can have progress when the embargo is lifted.

[@NellieKAdaba]

Yes, I agree

[@LadyUnicornEJG]

Toren Stoudt Because no country creates everything? That's like asking why any other country has to rely on the economies of others. We are long past little self sufficient communities. If needing things from elsewhere means a failed economy, every economy fails and capitalist is as failed as communism because we need things from other countries without identical economies.

[@crossfire7474]

Toren Stoudt This is not about communism.

[@crossfire7474]

@Ludd Zarko If America didn't impose the embargo, Cuba would still be prosperous. That's the point.

[@beckyroque8950]

We do not get better if embargo if gone and the government is not replaced , both need to go together. The regimen is killing cuban natural creativity , is not the embargo.

[@alannajohnson5043]

nada más quiero buenas cosas para mi país... te quiero mucho Cuba

[@TravisLoneWolfWalsh]

These young people are happy do they look oppressed no? Other wise they would never be able to say what's on their minds

[@yvonne3745]

America is what lead to the rise of communist in Cuban because they were such dickheads

[@ivanalejandro6184]

Ludd Zarko the Cuban revolution was a consequence of a the US backed dictatorship in there lmao shut the fuck up

[@kimobrien.]

@@ivanalejandro6184 Che gave The US Ambassador at the US Minister of the Colonies at OAS a hearty "Thank You" saying the revolution was stronger than ever due to the US sponsored invasion at Giron. Those who were captured were put on an auction block and sold as slaves back to US Millionaire President Kennedy.

[@beckyroque8950]

They never are going to speak their mind, because she get kick out of the University .Let me tell you something ,while in the University , after you do your exams in order to move to next level you have to submit a letter regarding your revolutionary thoughts.

[@kimobrien.]

@@beckyroque8950 In the US right up to at least into the 1970's you had to sign an oath swearing you weren't a member of the Communist Party or any subversive organization as determined by the Attorney General of the United States if you wanted a student National Defense Education Loan. We forced back the unconstitutional acts of the US government with the ground breaking lawsuit Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General. We forced open the files of the American Gestapo the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtaining a 1/4 million Dollars in damages, a contempt citation by a federal judge for the US Attorney General and a permanent injunction ending the unconstitutional ongoing investigation. .

[@nileshshingade3576]

Life in Cuba after Fidel Castro and in hands of his younger brother Raul Castro is like life after Jyoti Basu in Bengal in hands of buddhadeb Bhattacharjee no match no body can replace Fidel Castro similarly no body can replace Jyoti da or Jyoti Basu this were incimparable leaders full of charisma and people'tremendous support

[@bradley8867]

Castro was a great man

[@DJTrump47]

Bradley Tucker, if you say so

[@dirtydan179]

@cary bary _riiiiiiight_

[@dirtydan179]

@cary bary ask a cuban

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

Fidel and his half Chinese brother were the illegitimate children of a foreign, wealthy landowner, mom, was the cleaning lady and therein lies Fidel’s hatred of wealthy people; Cuba became his personal project to “kill the father.” Castro like the previous “president“ was not elected by the people. He was great alright...

[@JuanGarcia-hh3kn]

Fidel Castro was a tirant.

[@xpCarlo36]

Life doesn't change in less than a week. Maybe run this story in 10 years when some perspective takes hold.

[@Wackaz]

You missed the point of the video.

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

carlo: Maybe we don't have to wait that long

[@emiliob7428]

I wish I could visit Cuba but with the restrictions of America interfering

[@emiliobello2538]

I would love to visit Cuba

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

emilio: I will, as soon as comunism disappears

[@Alaska-Jack]

No you really don’t want that

[@emiliobello2538]

@@Alaska-Jack there are lovely beaches, great music. And good food

[@129das]

its a really nice place and the people are super nice too.

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

@@emiliobello2538 Only for foreigners. APARTHEID !

[@rossyvizcarra1927]

🙏 hope it gets better in Cuba 🇨🇺

[@coimbralaw]

I’m sure your hope will go a long way

[@Cazador60140]

Commandante please tell us the story of your most trusted friend ( he trusted you commandante ) Camilo Cienfuegos, how come he died , when he died, how he died , where he died

[@buttercupj6208]

Cuba 🇨🇺❤️

[@timothyortiz2222]

We live on same planet. We must work together. Stop our ego trip hurting each other.

[@tempejkl]

Wow. Genuinely insane to live in a first world nation, and look at Cuba, a country that was a third world nation in 1960 and went through incredibly harsh embargos, and think, wow, it looks so much better than my country, and so much more developed.

[@ricardo7308]

The real cuban peoole, not like the nazis who are in Miami.

[@Just_an_alien1]

Ricardo Herrera those Cubans in Miami are lazy people who just ask for welfare

[@carlosramos5256]

@@Just_an_alien1 Oh, really ? I know MANY CUBANS who work like crazy

[@serjthereturn]

don't seem particularly oppressed

[@pmaii7707]

serjthereturn there not it's American propaganda that makes it seem like these people are living in hell

[@ajitsingh-dv9nz]

Te quiero cuba ❤❤

[@emiliobello2429]

They said Raul was medicore and they werent afraid

[@doritomaldonado803]

0:58 I love Cuban women

[@muhdelyas-abgyas562]

You love all attractive women...

[@dantesaenz5635]

I love cuban strippers 😁👌🏼🤗

[@sooryan_1018]

COMMUNIST SIMP! 😤 *WE* LOVE CUBAN WHAMEN

[@lemagnifique1573]

She's ethnically Spanish btw. Almost all of White Cubans are descendant of Spanish

[@carlosramos5256]

@@dantesaenz5635 In Cuba, there are none

[@VexylObby]

Somebody give this person a software career!

[@emiliob7428]

Obby who?

[@hamanakohamaneko7028]

Maybe the government. So that Cuba can allocate goods better so that people don't queue too long.

[@jasoncardoza6375]

@@hamanakohamaneko7028 no, maybe we and the government stay out of other people’s lives. 90% of the world’s problems are government and here people want it larger. No government or political system has lasted.... none!

[@Pstfix]

Still seems to be a steady stream of Cubans risking it all for a chance to wash ashore along the Florida coast. Wonder why they didn’t speak to any of those people.

[@Potasium-n4h]

Source??

[@Aj25559]

Cause they will get killed from talking about it

[@Aj25559]

@@Potasium-n4h the source is the Cubans coming to Florida that are able to speak about it

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Even I think Cuba also makes a great US State is that this deserve its American democracy.

[@enterchannelname5953]

Cuba is Democratic

[@osheridan]

Americans are so self centred it's actually shocking

[@andybowman7462]

I doubt that not many Cubans would really tell you what they think

[@oliroly2221]

my dad grew up during the revolution and he tells me wat he thought of it

[@gggfightklub8449]

Ah yes, disregard what the Cuban citizens think because it doesn’t fit your narrative

[@oliroly2221]

@@gggfightklub8449 tru

[@carlosramos5256]

@@gggfightklub8449 And who told you what the Cuban citizens think ? I know. It was fidelov himself, which returned from the eternal flames to tell you. As usual, he told you only lies

[@carlosramos5256]

@@oliroly2221 NOT THE SAME !

[@jesuschristsaves392]

The Gospel of salvation of our souls: 💜💕💜💖💞💜💕For what I received I passed on to you as of [first importance]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time,

[@commander_expendable]

he didn't save the millions who died at the hands of the holocaust, the crusades, the cia sponsored genocides, and many other tragedies that cost millions of lives.

[@dnguyen787]

Cuba is not going to change if people just talk and wait, and no action! :-(

[@emiliobello2538]

Bien Nho it would soon

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

Bien: That is what they are doing now

[@dnguyen787]

@@victorhrodriguez1159 Right on, it's about time! Hope that the people will succeed in establishing a new democratic Cuba. :-)

[@Potasium-n4h]

Cuba is already democratic, du Hampelmann@@dnguyen787

[@tempejkl]

@@dnguyen787Cuba is the most democratic country in the world.

[@wiseboywiseman5240]

He may Rest in peace ...hello my software developer try to be in Touch...I'm software Engineer too

[@BrayanCCG]

The revolution is great and generous. The revolution taught all Cubans to read and write, to later let them read and write what they wanted. The revolution eliminated neighborhood brothels and made of Cuba a great brothel , Cuba ceased to be a brothel of the USA to become a brothel of the world. The revolution brought electricity to places where there was none and then cut electricity to places where it already existed. Poor hygiene, stress and poor nutrition makes you sick, but after you are sick your healthcare is "free". The sneaks or brigades of quick response can break your head but after that the doctors are gonna close it. The revolution erased the exploitation of man by man and implemented the exploitation of man by government. The revolution promised parents that the fruits would be for their children , we are in the generation of great-grandchildren and we are still waiting. The revolution overthrew a dictatorship and implemented a monarchy. The revolution eliminated the deads in the streets and replaced them with the deads at sea. The revolution sent a man to the moon and ended up turning off our sun.

[@Cinnam0nr0ll]

If I had 2 or 3 thumbs up I would give it to you! Bravooooo for the only comment that accurately depicts Cuba!!!

[@carlosramos5256]

Haise Sasaki: I am impressed. A REALLY SPLENDID DESCRIPTION ! VERY ACCURATE !

[@lgizzy6335]

The future is bright in that country

[@sione43]

To all the American who want socialism, please move to Cuba!

[@giana2676]

Yup

[@cL-bf2ug]

addie11 No, we will succeed on making the U.S. a socialist state.

[@roydeilock2557]

c L As a dude who have parents born in Cuba and Nicaragua, you absolutely don’t want that

[@cL-bf2ug]

RoyDeiLock We still want it

[@roydeilock2557]

c L so you want this country to be like Venezuela ,Cuba, or any other communist country which every country that has tried to do socialism and has failed. That’s why all of the people except, the government are poor as hell. You live with an authoritarian ruler which can’t let you haves free speech or can’t talk bad about the government otherwise you go to jail or even worst, executed.

[@canyildiz5966]

Lift the blockade! Let Cuba breath!

[@enterchannelname5953]

@@whiskeypete2000how?

[@rodequis6014]

All these people don't know what freedom is all about.

[@hellofkn3282]

Healthcare in cuba is free! Free in cheap quality and cheap labour!

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

Hello: VERY CHEAP QUALITY !

[@PETERLINNAH]

I think the reason Cuba is still operating as a repressive regime is that its people can't escape easily because Cuba is an island. East Germany, for example, fell hard when its people found an escape route through Hungary after that failing communist country opened its borders to Austria. Tens of thousands of East Germans packed their meager things in their horrible, inefficient, smoke-belching Trebant automobiles, or boarded packed buses and trains and went on "vacation" to Hungary and never returned. They eventually got through to Austria, and from there to West Germany where they were given automatic citizenship. East Germany could not plug the leak and that spelled the end. The already basket-case East German economy collapsed, the Wall came down and East Germany was free and joined with West Germany. Cubans have no such options. It is a tough situation because there is no easy way out for its people.

[@cherylno583]

Peter L you make it sounds like its north korea LOL

[@Ashley-1917]

If Cuba is an undemocratic society to you, you should take a look at the US!

[@PETERLINNAH]

@@Ashley-1917 One big difference is that people from around the world want to come to America, whereas nobody in their right mind wants to go to Cuba, and those who live there wish they didn't.

[@Ashley-1917]

@@PETERLINNAH That's hardly a proper comparison. The USA is the inperial center of the world at the moment. You can hardly compare the economic welfare of a country of 350 million that has done everything in its power to expand its sphere of influence via neocolonialism, with an island nation of 11 million that was essentially a former slave colony of the US, and to this day is effectively barred from trading with the outside world by am illigal embargo exposed upon it by the United States.

[@Ashley-1917]

@@PETERLINNAH If you instead compare it to other nations in the region that are capitalist, you will see a vast quality of life improvement.

[@thatguy3174]

Sí, creo que estoy en el lugar equivocado.

[@elektra1968]

I Love Cuba and i LOVE the revolutionary cuban people,, Its very proud people and they have all the reasons be be proud

[@Atilla_the_Fun]

@BlueWolf Gacha what? Literally at the opening the woman said raul Castro was mediocre and there's nothing good about him except his name. I have seen videos of people inside cuba insulting the govenfment and nobody gives a crap. Also mate, every country brainwashes you into its ideology. Name one that doesn't?

[@danielgames13]

@@Atilla_the_Fun i forgot i owned this account and to everyone I'm sorry for the cringe after seeing my name and pfp. Its cancer

[@danielgames13]

@@Atilla_the_Fun democracy is allot better cuz at least you can decide who should run the country

[@danielgames13]

@@Atilla_the_Fun not really, as a german citizen I haven't been forced any ideology and there is even a communist party running for chancellor there.

[@danielgames13]

@@Atilla_the_Fun If it was that case they would've been gone long ago.

[@juliancaballero49]

BBC I appreciate the thought, but next time give them anonymity or you won’t get the truth

[@haitas8501]

Are you sure about that?

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

@@haitas8501 I AM !

[@akshayganesh4144]

I wish I was born in Cuba no tension of finding, no ambition of growing big job nothing. Education is free, healthcare is free. Complete the education, do some small business or some social service roam around the beautiful beaches of the country. Spend a lot of time with family without any tension

[@pshin4620]

Lol u serious.. 🤣 You'd have to do two jobs to sustain and be in line for hours to get food n Healthcare lol. Do better research

[@ThinhTran-wy6vc]

@@pshin4620 socialism is working, not as intended, of course. It makes everyone closer in terms of wealth. There is not a lot of those ultra rich in Cuba. So basically, no super rich but also no super poor. People have enough to get by.

[@lewkie9825]

@@pshin4620 you sound like a big clown

[@josecitod01]

@@ThinhTran-wy6vc lmao no one is rich in Cuba, only the government and Castro’s family. That is the only wealth that socialism creates, more wealth for the government and less for the people

[@ThinhTran-wy6vc]

@@josecitod01 i said it was not working as intended. The wealth was supposed to be redistributed to help improve everyone's lives. But as usually, corrupted people in the government pocket the wealth themselves

[@DarkshadowXD63]

I feel Cuba is left in good hands, maybe one day my granddad will be able to visit once again before he passes.

[@Randive]

socialist piece of trash

[@RealNiggaBob]

Good joke lol. That mf left with no intention of returning lol

[@wrestling46nerd]

Healthcare is something that everyone should have free access to. It's a human right to healthcare, clean water , food and some form of shelter . However communism is pretty much dead or if you feel it never truly was but ether way I hate communism and the horrible history put on the ppl by the leaders that support it.

[@monkeydui7241]

Then water in our homes should be free

[@Potasium-n4h]

that a pretty communist way of thinking for a communism-hater

[@tempejkl]

Yes. And the Soviet Union provided all with that.

[@jasannslife3916]

Cuba is not a strict communist state . The people here have rights to protest or whatsoever. The people live here normal so never compare this country to NOKOR.

[@yeselectionwasrigged3645]

Ya..Castro really helped the nation of Cuba a whole lot. What a psychotic man that was.

[@Cinnam0nr0ll]

They didn't even realize that Fidel was a psychopath. LOL

[@MeowMeowsChild]

Many famous good people were phsyco

[@chungusmaximus526]

Cubans died by the boatload in Africa so that the Castros could have access to Angolan oil and diamonds.

[@CaRrOtCaKe32200]

Never lived there so its hard to truly make opinion. But i am very impressed with the education and health care for everyone not just the so called blessed.

[@hamez1300]

George Kaylor You can get a good education and health care under a a more social democratic capitalism, like those found in Europe and Australia.

[@gracec1665]

Perhaps, they should ask more probing questions. People, keep inmind Cuba is communistic. The citizens CAN NOT SPEAK THE TRUTH. To survive, they must live a double life. What they say must always be superficial, and favorable to the government. Yes, education and health care is free to all. But, would you want to be hospitalized in a country that lacks sterile needles? Modern IV? Without sterile operating rooms, and medicine? Yes, it's free...but, they DO NOT HAVE SUPPLIES. Now knowing that, would you want to be hospitalized there?

[@maxamphetamines]

@@gracec1665 yeah, i can tell how few supplies they have by the fact that the average lifespan in cuba is higher than the one in the us.

[@gracec1665]

@@maxamphetamines Silly, their long life is due to a life of less stress than the U.S.A. and, they walk almost to every place they need to go to, and they have a very very social life with their community as well as with their families. That is why.

[@maxamphetamines]

@@gracec1665 yes, because of a less profit-based society

[@lisalasoya2898]

This is a life of Cubans in Cuba delegating a "yes or no" concept toward an opposition era 1960's -70's. A Black woman who is the lead in this controversy deems she is not only right, but also this concept should be expedited due to upcoming danger.

[@eventvisionsinc]

Right be a doctor and earn 20.00 dollars a month what a joke

[@carlosramos5256]

immo: Since we were paid in Cuban pesos, I don't know, but I think it was less

[@jesuschristsaves392]

Dear God🙏 in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in the bible that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as my Lord. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Amen.

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

All the non Cubans, go wash your behind. This is none of your business

[@gosiagorecka3454]

These are smart people who understand value of revolution did for them - unfortunately capitalism and Us sanctions are trying to make them back down

[@dmeads5663]

“This message was brought to you by the Cuban government”

[@imcyta3900]

Not really

[@dmeads5663]

ImCyta yea really

[@imcyta3900]

@@dmeads5663 You're telling me the Cuban government payed BBC to make this

[@dmeads5663]

ImCyta wouldn’t surprise me, they are a pretty crooked news org.

[@imcyta3900]

@@dmeads5663 BBC is owned by capitalists...

[@rodgerbenson6929]

World needs more men like OSHO , No che Guevara, No Fidel Castro , No USA ..

[@Eksimilio]

OSHO was a scammer. Watch The Greatest Strory Never Told and EUROPA - The Last Battle documentaries to see who the world missed.

[@AFA111]

They look too poor.

[@sooryan_1018]

What you expect them to be fat or what?

[@arpansaha2111]

That's what 60 years of trade embargos will do to you

[@tempejkl]

Looks far better than my country, I am envious. They even sent us doctors in the pandemic.

[@hansfrankfurter2903]

Lift the sanctions

[@josephgover5072]

Without Castro Cuba is free from his rule 1:57

[@hamez1300]

I think everyone in this comment section wetting themselves over how well socialism has done in Cuba should realise many Cubans can’t survive without having multiple and/or illegal jobs. Professional workers such as Doctors, Nurses and Engineers get paid pretty much around the poverty line. Even if Cubans did get a decent wage they live under a one party totalitarian state. Capitalism needs reform, but even you support socialism don’t see this country as a utopia. It’s anything but that.

[@Potasium-n4h]

Source?

[@brindonswindon]

@@Potasium-n4h me

[@SivaSiva-im8mv]

super about Cuba informations thank u

[@ronlatronica3112]

Las mujeres todavía son las mejores.

[@LiterallyGod]

You can’t even get meat there.

[@tempejkl]

Thanks to the embargo? If the USA was under an embargo - there would be no iPhones, no high tech military devices, no computers or electronics, not as much food, not enough electricity, and no immigrants.

[@TomTom-gy7ov]

Lmao, you just chose from the group of very privileged people who aren't affected by Cuba's terrible economic system.

[@uwannasee_greatness]

yeah those privileged Afro Cubans that praciticed voodoo.

[@qassamrabi4719]

Tom Tom the point of communism is that no one is more privileged than the other, so the people we saw are basically how everyone in cuba is.

[@TomTom-gy7ov]

qassam rabi what about the people that were forced into camps for not agreeing with Castro? Or the gays that were forced into labour camps

[@qassamrabi4719]

Tom Tom I don't know about that im not defending him, but communists are as progressive as it gets.

[@GazaWest]

Another Western controlled stooge choosing to believe the bullshit over truth. The US had 50yr embargo on Cuba since the early 60's which affected their lives, but no, its was Castro it did this..what a muppet you are!

[@AlabamaWorley718]

Can someone answer this for me. Who pays for the free health care? Does the money come from the people paying taxes? The government? Who pays the doctors? Serious question. Cause in America anything that is free comes from the working class getting taxed more.

[@arpansaha2111]

The government owns all the oil refineries and farmland.

[@mangopulp1443]

Castro was a bad man

[@carlosramos5256]

Mango: VERY !

[@kingdomofprussia4649]

Lets be honest, Cuba ain't Communist, in fact it never was, Fidel Castro originally just wanted autonomy for Cuba, not Communism, his idol was actually Abraham Lincoln, the only reason he had strong ties with the Soviet union was because the united states backed his enemies who seek to destroy democracy and return Cuba to what it was before, I think Michael Parenti was correct when talking about Cuba.

[@Potasium-n4h]

Nah, they're Commie

[@luisgrod0]

Karl Marx is the walking dead in Cuba and Venezuela.

[@jacobpeters5458]

what about NK? or is that Stalin

[@LumiNyte]

@@jacobpeters5458 yes

[@hectorcastellanos7270]

What about trump

[@Shiroya_Rumika]

Damn... Healthcare in Cuba is Free while the US, the country who don't like them, are having a problem about the healthcare

[@carlosramos5256]

dr: Right. Free. No medications, no alcohol, no cotton, no medical supplies. Hospitals are filthy

[@jameshsu8303]

People love Fidel Castro Because Fidel Castro loves people!

[@carlosramos5256]

jam: He loved HIS PEOPLE, his goons

[@dachicagoan8185]

his body was still warm when they made this documentary. Maybe give it more time to ask people or see what happens?

[@chrlymartinez7663]

viva comunismo! !!abajo el imperialismo yankie

[@DJTrump47]

Carlos Martinez, Libertad!

[@mikidias]

Carlos Martinez Viva la Revolucion! adelante. siempre! 👍 ✋ ✌ ☺

[@kimmyymmik]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@coltruiz7126]

Just hope that those changes will not make Cuba again as haven for mafia's

[@santaclaracuba1977]

La verdad no tiene debate a menos que quiera ser suprimida conoce la verdad y te hara libre

[@victorhrodriguez1159]

Still the same disaster

[@johnwicked882]

turns out Cuba is great, thankyou BBC you opened my eyes.

[@FirstGear83]

Free healthcare in a country suffering like cuba is amazing....us had to wait for a black geeza to do the same even thou they are doing so amazingly well and seem to be the epicentre of the truest form of human rights done correctly lol.

[@CityofPeace07]

May The Creator of the Universe set all the PEOPLE of CUBA free now and always. Amen,and Amen. Peace,love,prosperity to Cuba and to all citizens of Cuba. Amen,and Amen. ONE PEOPLE.ONE WORLD. ONE LOVE.

[@mattysav4627]

Set them free from who the usa sanctions?

[@Potasium-n4h]

THERE IS NO GOD, YOU PATHETIC FOOL

[@michaelowino228]

HI

[@pajodato5339]

That's a nice software developer

[@rootsrockreggae4192]

Hell yea Cuba is Cuban owned

[@bRadicalmagic1]

"Jesus/God is crazy in Love with YOU, yes YOU: The person reading this comment ! ! !"

[@tusik3021]

God is dead

[@basedtvrk9125]

God is dead

[@Skipbo000]

Cuba needs a leader who is able to negotiate with the United States and lift the Embargo. Cuba must have the support of the United States in order to prosper. But they're stubborn and want to do things their way while benefitting from the U.S. and the U.S. leaders have not been willing to do that.

[@Potasium-n4h]

They will probably only lift the embargo if Cuba goes capitalist which I hope they don't

[@tempejkl]

The USA is the problem, not Cuba. Cuba just wants good life and prosperity. USA goes out of their way to hurt them.

[@1239Rolo]

There is no change the same situation the Cuban people continue to sufer even more!

[@cherylno583]

Rolando Esparza yes i agree! they appear to be suffering extreme in the video yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cogitoergosum951]

Hasta La Victoria! Siempre!

[@kamilebrahimoff3589]

Life in Cuba after Fidel Castro, is the same as with him in power. They made sure the next leader will follow in Fidel's footsteps. It is not like all of a sudden Florida Cubans will be welcomed back.

[@Pencl_crossbow]

based Fidel Castro

[@luvvinlovelock7254]

Since he finally died, will you return back to your country??

[@AtlantisChannel]

Socialism for necessities, capitalism for everything else.

[@jacob_ian_decoursey_the_author]

Seems fine there. Every country has issues. Hell, the US is full of them. But the paranoia the “West” has spread regarding Cuba as some Red Menace seems unjustified.

[@abbymolkentin5111]

Everything that went down there is hidden. Talk to someone who had to flee. The truth is far more interesting and horrible... it’s not fine there at all you sounds totally idiotic

[@thismonstrosity2137]

@@abbymolkentin5111 the only people who had to flee where the bourgeoise gusanos

[@carlosramos5256]

@@abbymolkentin5111 He is an idiot ! Knows NOTHING

[@carlosramos5256]

@@thismonstrosity2137 NO, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT CUBA ! But anyway, you come here to spill shit. TWO MILLION PEOPLE fled from a population of 6 million. I would LOVE if you could see the houses of those who escaped in 1980. They were practically on the floor. Bourgeoise ? You make me laugh, IGNORANT !

[@dtomasso1016]

Life in Cuba has been the same bullshhhhh after and before fidel