Good post. Us boomers are are still influenced by The Red Scare—a highly successful propaganda campaign by the U.S. government to influence opinion against FDR’s progressive movement, which challenged the capitalist’s profit-making machine. There’s an excellent book by Peter Kuznik, and documentary series by Kuznik and Oliver Stone, called The Untold History of the United States, that recounts the history and the scare that remains with us, as your post reveals. Thanks for sharing this.

And whatever the case may be, America's embargo and other acts of economic warfare hurt the Cuban people and strengthen the authoritarian Cuban government. What are we afraid of if their system is such a fail?

For the rich and Cuba is not a good example

As far as I know Cuba has communism and a dictator for their leader ?
No idea if they feed their homeless . But their citizens I know first hand are living in fear and starving .
To be caught w a cow , = prison . I have many Cuban friends from my time to Florida and many here in Virginia Beach . Hard working people . None of them want to live in Cuba .
One of my traveling nurses , Armando , was going to visit his father back in Cuba last year . He was worrying for having too much cash w him in his wallet , and he was hoping that this will be the trip to convince the old birds to migrate .
That’s all i know about Cuba , what I ve been told from cubans .