Yea, your perfect English led me to have to do a 30-second scroll through. I've never met a native Cuban with such good English. And you wouldn't be killed. There hasn't been an execution in Cuba in 15 years, and it was for something extremely violent. Unless you got that kind of record, you wouldn't be killed. Imprisoned? Guess it depends on what you've done. Leaving the island? I've never known any Cuban to be imprisoned for that. Accepting money from USAID to fund attempts to overthrow the government? Sure, you can be imprisoned for that. But that would happen anywhere in the world.
Yea, thanks for the definition of corrupt. You've failed to demonstrate how the Cuban government is guilty of that. Regarding the poor conditions of your family members, perhaps I can get you in touch with a colleague of mine that works for the education ministry in Cuba. If, for whatever reason, they're currently starving to death, she can definitely hook them up with some food. She can probably also personally teach them how to read, if they're interested as she played a pivotal role in constructing the literacy lessons used in '61 for the literacy campaigns that were later adopted by the UN.
Yes, Hurricane Matthew was hard on Cuba. Unfortunately no nation on earth can stop hurricanes at the moment. My point was that given the way cuba distributes its resources, disasters like those don't affect them as bad as, say, Haiti or another country in the caribbean that's worse off.
Cuba didn't simply deny hurricane aid from the US. Cuba prevented USAID (an organization that has historically worked to overthrow the government) and other charities from coming in and meddling in their affairs. But if we want to play the straw man argument, the US rejected Cuban aid after Katrina.
And I'm glad you're not in the mood to argue as I'm not advocating an argument. I'm simply calling you out on nonsense. And trust, my knowledge on Cuba goes way beyond the internet and my grandmother (which yours apparently comes from).