Its a little hard to gauge the potential of the post-Batitsta government when the US slapped pretty crippling sanctions on Cuba the moment it had the audacity to overthrow its brutal dictator. Yet despite that handicap they still managed to cultivate a pretty stellar healthcare service for all Cubans as well as achieve literacy rate almost unrivalled across the globe. To the extent a child is more likely to die at birth in the US than in Cuba, and less likely to be given health coverage (economic status depending, which is not an issue in Cuba).
I'm not absolving Castro's Cuba of Human Rights offenses and other atrocities that may have occurred, but its objectively a better country for all Cubans than it was under the US-backed Batista regime (which btw had its own impressive torture portfolio).
