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Cuban-born speaker warns of "indoctrination" on U.S. campuses, urges civic engagement
Summary
Gabriella Puckett, who left Cuba at 18, described poverty, food rations and political repression she said followed the 1959 revolution and told a Highland audience she sees similar organizing on Utah college campuses; a lengthy Q&A followed.
Gabriella Puckett, who said she grew up in Cuba and left at 18, told a Highland gathering that life under Cuba's post-1959 socialist government meant shortages, state propaganda and limits on private property. "The country has failed completely," she said, describing rationed food and minimal school meals and adding that "nothing is really free" if citizens lose freedom of speech and choice.
Puckett described daily scarcities she said she experienced: a ration booklet that she said provided "5 eggs per person a month, 1 piece of bread per person a day" and powdered milk past early childhood. She said students faced…
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