Fidel Castro celebrates 90th birthday, criticises Obama in public letter

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92. Why don't you tell us, dear, how many?

Perhaps you didn't realize: Cubans are free to travel to wherever they want. They don't need to use 'homemade rafts' any more.

And why did they before? And why would anyone risk their life to get to another country? Perhaps because they received a good education in their country of origin but expected to make a lot more dough once they got to the other place?

Look, I am in Germany and we had the exact same situation. If you grew up in the East, a good education was guaranteed and, of course, free. Then, instead of paying back their country of origin by working their asses off or just doing their job, a small number decided to make it big. They 'risked their lives' crossing the border illegally and then were able to make much more money than those who stayed in the GDR.

Why did they 'risk their lives', you ask? Because in a different social system some people have have more advantages, personally, than in others. A doctor, for instance, earned a lot more in the West than in the East. Were they better? No. Their society, those in power, had decided that you had to pay if you were sick, much more than in the East. That attracted a lot of doctors, those who were primarily interested in making money, from the East to go West. Pretty easy to understand, actually.