This is excellent journalism, except for one glaring error of omission. The driving force behind Castro's rise was the rampant corruption and oppression under the Batista regime--Cubans were sick of being dominated by the dictator Batista, the mafia (via Meyer Lansky), the hotels and casinos with their gambling, and rampant corruption, rumrunning and forcing Cuban girls into prostitution. If you read Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, this is and has been deliberate US policy in the region for a long time. The reporter assumes that Western capitalism would be a benign influence. Fathers of 16 year old daughters have grandfathers that would advise them that there were different results in the last century. The girl that would have been a prostitute in Meyer Lansky's day, under Castro, had a better than average chance of being a doctor. This article only acknowledges it in a backhand way. Otherwise, she was on her way to a perfect five rating.