Cuba is a fascinating contradiction.

It's a country where most have a college education and no one can buy a house; it's crumbling decrepitude and as beautiful as Prague or Paris; a place where everyone reads and there are few books; a dictatorship where creativity and opinion abounds; a place of excellent health care and no medicine; a city where countless poor live in magnificent palaces; a country where surfaces are often ugly but, upon opening the door, splendors await.