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> Cuba or Venezuela were richer than Spain in the 50s just to give you a couple of examples. And Venezuela has natural resources. Sorry, I checked GDP per capi
by thiagoharry 3y ago
> Cuba or Venezuela were richer than Spain in the 50s just to give you a couple of examples. And Venezuela has natural resources.
Sorry, I checked GDP per capita charts, and it appears that Cuba was not richer than Spain in 50s. It would be implausible that a small country with little natural resources would become richer than the country that colonized it in so little time.
And Venezuela become poorer than Spain in 1982. So it had no relation with "take everything from the others and give to the poor".
Counterpoint for your argument: outside the west, between non-alignment countries, only places where marxist-leninist revolutions happened produced powers that were able to seriously compete with the west. For example, URSS and China.
- germandiago 3y agoI never talked about GDP. I meant per capita. How people lived. I can tell you because many spanish families emigrated there. I know cases from friends whose parents are from those countries. I am spanish and it was common knowledge that those places had higher income at that time.