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'''Cuba''' is an island located in the [[Caribbean Sea]], 90 miles south of [[Florida]]. It is the only [[Communist]] country in the Western Hemisphere. Its high level of freedom and prosperity was destroyed by dictator [[Fidel Castro]].
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'''Cuba''' is an island located in the [[Caribbean Sea]], 90 miles south of [[Florida]]. It is the only [[Communist]] country in the Western Hemisphere. Its high level of freedom and prosperity was destroyed by dictator [[Fidel Castro]]. [[Humberto Fontova]] rebuts the:
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:... legend of that handful of long-haired, bearded [[beatnik]]s who overthrew a "brutal U.S.-backed dictatorship that repressed and impoverished Cuba"
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:... in fact Cuba had a higher standard of living in 1958 than half of Europe, a larger middle class than Switzerland, a more highly unionized work force than the U.S., more doctors and dentists per capita than Great Britain, more cars and televisions per capita than Canada or Germany, [and] was inundated with immigrants.<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=86DE50D7-E16B-42C6-B61E-035B6A1F541D Che Guevara: Mass Murderer and Coward]</ref>