Cuban Youth Movement

Every so often you read something that you hope and pray is fake. I read a BBC article entitled "Meeting Cuba's youngest politician" and did just that. It profiles 18-year-old Liaena Hernandez, one of the few outliers in a government that is growing increasingly older.

I couldn't quite tell if it was an attempt at humor or stone-cold serious British journalism, but since its the BBC it couldn't be anything but the latter, but when you juxtapose this...

"History has taught us that the Communist Party is the road that Cuba needs to follow.

"We don't need to copy other countries' systems. We are satisfied with our own and we are going to keep perfecting it."

...with this...

"Better roads and housing are amongst their [the people of Manuel Tames] concerns, but food appears the number one priority."

...you either laugh, lament a young girl's indoctrination into a system that doesn't work, or both. Who am I to judge, but when two of your three main concerns revolve around basic human needs you know you have a system that doesn't work.