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"By all measures..." No, not by all measures. By some statistics, sure. But Cuba is an oppressive police state. Sure, humans can live long, healthy, literate lives in captivity. Yet what value is literacy when the state regulates what you can read and what you can say?



> But Cuba is an oppressive police state.

So, like Vietnam? [1]

1: http://www.ibtimes.com/vietnam-police-state-where-one-six-wo...


Universal literacy enables samizdat-style dissenter communication.




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