Awww. Leftist newspaper The Guardian has published an article exposing the miserable lives of Cuba’s elderly, so many of whom dedicated their entire lives to creating the utopia promised by Castro, Inc. How sad. It was not supposed to end like this, says The Guardian. But the evil U.S. is really the cause of this failure, not Castro, Inc. The blockade, the blockade! This is the main reason that Cuba’s economy has collapsed. Damn Yankees! Viva el socialismo!

From The Guardian

In central Havana, Martha Ortega has been queueing for mince. She has both osteo- and rheumatoid arthritis causing her foot to drag, but she remains stylish, a checked shirt and denim handbag giving her the air of an 80-year-old cowgirl.

Until five years ago, Ortega was a receptionist in a local office of the Communist party of Cuba. Her pension is 1,575 pesos a month, but in the last three years, inflation has reduced its value to less than $5. “I try to spread it between food, medicines, whatever I can,” she says.