| Summary: | This article focuses on the economic situation in Cuba. On one side, every Cuban has health care, education, and food. On the other, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is an unsavory dictator, commanding absolute control, repressing freedoms, and imposing severe punishments for dissidence. Cuba has developed an extensive slang. One such Cubanism is the use of the verb "luchar." "La lucha," or the fight, is the daily struggle to get by, to pass, to succeed. More often, la lucha is used to describe economic struggle. The Cuban state, theoretically the only employer, pays an average salary of 260 pesos, about $10 a month. The cost of living is much lower in Cuba than in the U.S.
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