Cuba on Way to Ecotopia

In response to “An Island on the Way to Ecotopia,” by Robert W. Benson, Column Left, March 29:

I’m glad to learn from Benson’s report that Cuba provides its people with the right to food, shelter, medical and dental care, etc. The only beneficence Benson forgot was that the trains run on time. Of course, there is no democracy, no civil liberties and the residents cannot escape the bliss of their paradisiacal environment, albeit many try to do so at their peril.

It is interesting to note that we have the same type of existence in the United States except we call it prison. I suspect that if, in either case, the exit doors were thrown open for all to leave, no one would remain to enjoy their wonderful life furnished, in one case, by the warden and in the other by a “benevolent” dictatorship.

WILLIAM HARPER

Santa Monica