Some trade unionists have been sentenced to 30 years in prison for their organizing activities. A network of formal and informal restrictions limits religious activity and the official state ideology of atheism is taught in the schools. Freedom to emigrate is severely restricted. and those who apply to emigrate lose their jobs. their ration cards. their housing. and their personal possessions. It is no wonder that more than 100.000 persons fled Cuba in 1980 to seek a better way of life in the United States. Cubas continued support for the subversion of other governments is not a matter of mere moral support and solidarity with international communism.
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