Actually, Cuba's unemployment is hovering at around 9%, about twice the US rate as of 2006, and this with an embargo policy in effect for almost fifty years. And even then, the government provides housing, food and top-notch medical care for all its' citizens.

I'm not a big fan of Fidel's personal style, as the cult of personality is never a healthy phenomenon, but it's astounding that after half a century, the US media keeps pumping out a caricature ignorant version of naughty, naughty Cuba, who won't play the corporate exploitation game (what do they call it, economic neoliberalism?) with Washington.

All one has to do is compare the quality of life of citizens in Cuba as opposed to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua or any other Latin America country that is/has been controlled by a puppet regime obedient to Chiquita Banana or Exxon Mobil.

The same applies to Venezuela, made into a pariah as a cult of personality has emerged to attempt to undo the damage done by decades of US corporate exploitation.

On the Daily Show, Evo Morales even joked to Stewart about how his Bolivia "is not part of the axis of evil" - "No somos parte del eje del mal".

One would think that Letterman would know better, but he too seems to hold the same inside-the-box, indoctrinated viewpoint.