It has been 67 years since Fidel Castro’s communist revolution in Cuba, more than enough time for the regime to create the collectivist utopia it promised at the outset.

In January 1959, riding high after his coup, Castro told the people of Havana, “We have a free country. We do not have censorship and the people can meet freely. We will never use force and the day the people do not want me, I will leave.”

Cuba’s days as a “free country” did not last long.

On May 1, 1961, Castro celebrated May Day with a speech titled “Cuba is a Socialist Nation,” in which he declared the end of elections and the creation of a “new social system called socialism.”

Since then, the Cuban people have suffered massively under socialism.

On nearly every objective social and economic benchmark, the socialist government of Cuba has utterly failed its people.

First and foremost, the command-and-control socialist economic system has made the once-prosperous island a basket case.

The Cuban economy, after more than six decades of socialism, is on the brink of total collapse.

In recent weeks, much has been made of the fact that Cuba has had multiple island-wide power........

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