I visited Colombia in December, going to Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta.
I saw many poor areas on these cities' outskirts. Millions of Colombians live in shacks because of the government's undemocratic practice of removing poor and powerless people from land they occupy and leaving them to fend for themselves.

Cuba is managing its economy and is making incremental changes and reforms within its socialist and human-needs-oriented system. The U.S. government and The Post shouldn't lecture Cuba when we have our own problems with the economy, the budget, health care, infrastructure and our moral standing in the world.

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