A report this year by Cuba's National Statistic Office showed the budget for ``defense and internal order'' rising steadily from 2004 to 2009, from 1.3 to 2.08 billion pesos. In comparison, it reported the government budgeted 3.7 billion pesos for education in 2009. The report did not include the 2010 budget.

I can't really figure out what the defense part is for (it's not like they could protect themselves from us if we actually felt like going in), so my suspicion is that it's ALL internal order and they're trying to keep from being strung up while they slowly abandon central planning (without admitting that it was an abject failure) ...