“Cuba was never a socialist miracle. It was a 60-year Ponzi scheme built on the shifting geopolitical tectonic plates of the Cold War. It survived by extracting wealth from the Soviet Union, then extracting oil from Venezuela, and finally by extracting the very labor of its own doctors. Now, the host bodies are gone. The last Soviet parasite has nothing left to feed on. The revolution wasn't murdered by an American embargo and it wasn't destroyed by a CIA invasion. It simply ran out of other people's money. They mistook a subsidy for a strategy and today 10 million citizens are sitting in the dark paying the ultimate price for that arrogance.”