Reply #11: Before Night Falls [View All]

[imenja]

You might want to have a look at Reinaldo Arenas' _Before Night Falls_ on the question of homosexuality in Cuba. Gutierrez-Alea's film, "Strawberry and Chocolate" is also informative.
Cuba's medical system has declined a good deal since the fall of the USSR and the end of it's subsidies to Cuba. Your presentation of the medical system may be out of date. My understanding is that Cuba doesn't produce the numbers and quality of doctors it once did, and foreigners who once traveled to Cuba for medical care look elsewhere now. The "Special Period" has been very difficult.
Of course, we live in a country with tremendous intolerance toward homosexuals and an obscenely expensive medical system to which far too few have access. Still, based on what I know about Cuba, I much prefer to live in the US.