Technically and wholly false.

Cubans can go to Mexico too, but if they try to get into the US that way they wont be allowed in.  The US demands Cubans wanting a free ticket to the US provide propaganda for the US first.  Why?  So that dumbasses like you will conclude,

“The existence of boat people is all the proof you need of that.”

Tell me Mr Dumbass, why does the US turn away Cubans if they come by land?

DavidByron:

Technically true. But you can fly to Mexico or Canada and get into Cuba from there. Cuba won’t stamp your passport and give you away. The US government pretends it doesn’t happen. It’s the game both sides play.

There is very little to stop you from going to Cuba if you really want to. Sadly, there is a who lot preventing ordinary everyday Cubans from leaving. The existence of boat people is all the proof you need of that.

I do know that the US blocks its citizens from traveling to Cuba.  Now that is a fact—not some bullshit propaganda put out by the communists.  As far as I know there’s no sign of the US ever lifting this restriction on its citizens.

As far as I know Cubans can already travel abroad.

Just another sad pathetic lying anti-Cuban article.  just another attack on socialism and hence an endorsement of the capitalist aristocracy.

Robes:

Do you have those latest death-by-malnourishment figures from Latin America?

“Cuba isn’t paradise but amazing how the US media is obsessed…” Totally agree. And I also think that, while Cuba isn’t a paradise, progressives still obsess over the fantasy that it is.

It is a progressive article of faith that the Cuban system is superior by most meaningful measures to the US system. So why haven’t Cubans been allowed to vacation outside Cuba until now, whether they could afford to or not? How does the US embargo prevent an ordinary Cuban from vacationing in, say, Venezuela or Bolivia? How does this superiority explain those inconvenient truths?

“(presumably those surviving on more than government subsidies),” that part was some sort of kick at Cuba’s system, however quite a lot of people in Latin America can’t travel as well, mostly because their countries are ruled by US-backed oligarchies that suck society dry while everyone else lives in slums and die of malnourishment. Cuba isn’t paradise but amazing how the US media is obsessed with any little event in Cuba or Venezuela, while much worse happens all over the hemisphere. Obama for example has a habit of calling the worst human rights violators like Colombia and Peru “shining beacons of democracy.” He won’t visit Honduras yet because I guess he still has a slight shred of dignity in his morally repugnant self.