By now we'd have another Puerto Rico. The Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama administrations' policies would have seen to that, killing off incentive as they did in most of our cities.
Only run by the mob.
So it’s better to have a communist outpost in the Gulf, then? One that is being increasingly courted by socialistic entities from past and present (particularly the EU), including its former benefactor, thanks to Obama and Kerry abrogating the Monroe Doctrine.
And why must it be presumed that Puerto Rico would have necessarily turned out the way it did, never mind a non-communist Cuba following suit?
Don’t put the blood of the victims of the Fidel regime on your account.