Cuba’s support for its arts should make us weep with envy | Letters

No artistic freedom in Cuba? Really (Havana artist sets up ‘haven for free speech’, 11 April)? Thanks to its rigorous arts education system, free to students including at graduate level, Cuba has a diverse and brilliant cultural life which engages with the wide spectrum of social and political issues in the country. Anyone who has visited the island will know that. The fact is that support for the arts would make educators in the UK weep with envy. Cuba has brought the world outstand