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There's this and then there's this:
The former (by a "Pedro Pan" child who fled Cuba in the early 1960s) is devoid of evidence for its assertions, some of which are pretty obviously false, while the latter is mostly anecdotal, but from someone who less obviously has an axe to grind. Probably the truth is somewhere inbetween, though only if Cuba becomes a more "open" society will we be able to find out.
UPDATE: And here's a more intermediate, and plausible, appraisal from the Socialist Workers.
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