By current GDP per capita, Cuba ranks last among all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, a striking and useful data point. Cuba’s GDP per capita stands at approximately $1,083, compared to a regional average of $10,212, a gap of roughly 90%. Jialiang Gao, www.peace-on-earth.org, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons For decades, leftists, including participants in the Nuestra América Convoy, have blamed Cuba’s poverty on the United States rather than on the communist dictatorship that has denied basic rights, including multiparty elections, since seizing power in 1959. They attribute Cuba’s crisis entirely to the U.S. oil blockade, ignoring decades of government mismanagement and centrally planned economic failure that preceded it. The embargo is real and has economic impact, and the UN General…
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