Let me guess, you lived in Havana, the city in Cuba with the highest population density, the only city where public services are somehow functional.
What constitute basic mobility for you? I once had to travel from Matanzas to Havana in an overcrowded bus, standing, and with no ventilation because it was one of those buses that were supposed to have AC. Is that what constitutes basic mobility for you? I'm sure a great way to live your life is to always compare oneself against the poorest countries, that way you are always on top.
Did you wait days in a bus terminal? A lot of people must travel to Havana at some point because that's the only place in the country where they can get some kind of paperwork or surgery done.
I have multiple accounts, do you know why? I bet you have never had to thought about it? Cuba recently created a law that allows them to give you prison time if you post "anything" on social media that they might interpret as "damaging the image of the Cuban revolution".
Is funny how is usually the foreigners preaching the greatness of Cuba.
Sorry, but you are mistaken, there is a mandate in Cuba that government vehicles must stop to pick up passengers if an "Amarillo" stops them, failing to do so will have them reported and "perhaps" face some consequence. The Amarillo, named like this because of their uniform, always have a little board where they write down the plates of all the government's cars who didn't stop when they had capacity.
People don't get around just fine, your experience was probably heavily skewed as a foreigner. There is no reliable train in Cuba, a 200 miles trip might take 18hrs. Inter provinces traveling is a nightmare, you can go to a bus terminal and wait days to get a ticket to the other side of the country, by wait days I mean on the terminal, sleeping on the floor.
I left Cuba around 7 years ago, right after college. My weekly routine was leaving college on Fridays at 5pm and go hitchhike in Alamar for a few hours, some days it was quick, others I could arrive at Alamar at 6pm and still be there at 11pm and finally getting home at 1AM. The travel back was the same until through a friend of mine I was able to get a weekly "leftover" seat in those tourist's bus.
What constitute basic mobility for you? I once had to travel from Matanzas to Havana in an overcrowded bus, standing, and with no ventilation because it was one of those buses that were supposed to have AC. Is that what constitutes basic mobility for you? I'm sure a great way to live your life is to always compare oneself against the poorest countries, that way you are always on top.
Did you wait days in a bus terminal? A lot of people must travel to Havana at some point because that's the only place in the country where they can get some kind of paperwork or surgery done.
I have multiple accounts, do you know why? I bet you have never had to thought about it? Cuba recently created a law that allows them to give you prison time if you post "anything" on social media that they might interpret as "damaging the image of the Cuban revolution".
Is funny how is usually the foreigners preaching the greatness of Cuba.