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Cuba’s Declining Society

Posted on the 24 July 2013 by Paul Phillips @sparkingtheleft

Flag_of_Cuba.svgI have always had a special interest, and defensive attitude toward any criticism of, Cuba, for I admire the Revolution with Che and Fidel. Their idealism and tenacity in an effort to build a better world has always been appealing to me. But it seems now, according to this article in the New York Times, that the culture and civility of the Cuban youth is on the decline. The article points to a economy that crumbled after the fall of the Soviet Union, amongst other factors,  that are attributing to the deterioration.


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