Cuba is not in a crisis because it is communist or has an authoritarian government, it’s having a catastrophic humanitarian crisis because the United States is carrying out an illegal siege against the island with the goal of starving and killing thousands for financial gain.
The US doesn’t give a rats ass about the people in Cuba or if they are actually free or not; it wants a subservient government that will allow US organized crime to flourish again to traffic women and children, ownership of the island’s oil deposits, and cheap real estate.
The US is a hostile entity dangerous and out of control; with Cuba it’s not capitalism vs communism, it is a country of greedy shits ruled by a cabal of international child raping criminals vs a sovereign state.