Over the years, we've heard about Cuba's socialist paradise. I'm sure that you've heard similar stories:
free education but not the freedom to read your book of choice;
free medicine but our relatives keep asking for everything, from eye glasses to simple aspirin;
free elections as long you vote for the state party;
free press as long as you read Granma;
and I can go on.
Over the years, I've had my share of arguments with Latin American lefties who hate the US more than they love freedom for the Cuban people.