Re: What's wrong with Havana?
Your right. Just last week I got arrested for not being a member of the ruling party, going on the internet without asking and reading an unapproved book. That happens all the time in other countries.
Besides that, Cuba is one of the most impoverished countries in the world. They earn less than twenty dollars a month and proper food (especially meat) rarely available or of bad quality.
You say that "poverty and political oppression are pretty prominent" in other places, but you need to put that into perspective and realize just how bad it is in Cuba.