For people like me, watching the reality of Cuba is painful.  It does not compare with the Cuba that my parents remember.  It was not a perfect place by any means, but it did not have many of the problems that we see today. Cuba has a very serious birthrate problem, as we read this week in the New York Times: By almost any metric, Cuba’s demographics are in dire straits. Since the 1970s, the birthrate has been in free fall, tilting population figures into decline, a problem much more common in rich, industrialized nations, not poor ones. Cuba already has the oldest population in all of Latin America. Experts predict that 50 years from now, Cuba’s population will have fallen by a third. More than 40 percent of the country will be older than 60. The demographic crisis is both an economic and a political one. The aging population will require a vast health care system, the likes of which the state cannot afford. And without a viable...(Read Full Post)