Reply #18: Sorry, it must be my poor reading comprehension

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" that happens everywhere. If it's the worst complaint, I'm packing my things, where do I get dropped off?"

I thought you meant the corruption in Cuban "happens everywhere", and this could be the "worst complaint". If that's what you hear, or think, or suspect, then you are missing the iceberg of Cuba's systemic corruption problem. We have a similar problem evolving under our new "fatherland, socialism or death" sloganeering leadership. The corruption is bad, and it seems to get worse all the time.

I suppose you could say it's not corruption if you assume it's institutionalized, approved by the top ranking party members, there's no respect for the law by anybody, and nobody complains openly because if they do they're accused of being oligarchs or traitors to the fatherland. And of course, there will always be Sean Penn to apologize and cover for what's so patently wrong. I think Sean Penn believes we're all little brown guys who lack the ability to tell when we're being fed garbage.