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> but the economic and societal destruction of communism is in its own category The Human Development Index puts Cuba at position 40, despite the huge economic
by quonn 10y ago
> but the economic and societal destruction of communism is in its own category
The Human Development Index puts Cuba at position 40, despite the huge economic disadvantage of the embargo.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2015_Human_Development_Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#2015_H...
- coredog64 10y agoThe urban parts of Cuba started out in a pretty good position. > "One might best summarize the complex situation by saying that urban Cuba had come to resemble a Southern European country (with a living standard as high or surpassing that of France, Spain, Portugal and Greece) while rural Cuba replicated the conditions of other plantation societies in Latin America and the Caribbean," according to analyst Mark Falcoff. [0] I've left off the bit about racism as that's already been much discussed in this thread. [0] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_precastro.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_precastro...