Cuba is an island in all aspects.
Besides it's encircled of the deep blue of Caribbean Sea, there's politic pressures, as internally as externally, there isolate it from the rest of the world.
Fidel Castro exercises his totalitarian power over the island defending ones of last communist regimes of all world. And the fight is very hard!...
The cuban communication media are completely alienating. Because the government regime there's no commercials of any kind in any place. In place of commercials just exists political advertising. In television appears just biographies of great names idolized in Cuba, just like José Marti, Che Guevara and even Fidel Castro. They also see cuban health or sugar-cane apologies, the cuban good points. In outdoors words of command like "Creemos en el socialismo (We believe in socialism)", "En cada barrio revolución (In each neighborhood a revolution)", "El socialismo, además de justicia, és dignidad e qualidad (The socialism, not talking about its justice, is dignity and quality)", are the rule. Written on the walls are uncountable pictures of Che Guevara. The radios put in the air all endless words talked by Fidel Castro in full, and the newspapers write them also in full in the next day.
The news from the world are the worst. 98% of the time the TV news talk about the cuban medical approaches, the wins of cuban teams, about cultural events in Havana City, about sugar-cane and etc. And what is talked from the world are things like "The level of misery in USA increased compared with last year", "This years the USA executed 78 persons sentenced to die", "Colombia is about to have another military coup d'état".
About 90% of books are political, specially the ones written by Che and Fidel.
The external strengths that makes Cuba become an island come from USA - Do I have to talk more??
So, Cuba goes ahead, making its people believe that the island and the
way that they live are the best of world. And many people do so...