Cuba is not the best country ever, but they have a great literacy rate, one of the highest in the western hemisphere, and health care, life expectancies that other nations are envious of. Despite being an autocracy, the country places 48 on the Human Development Index. That's practically ahead of the rest of the West Indies/Bahamas/etc Islands (i.e. Jamaica is #88). It's also ahead of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Brazil, Turkey, India...
I think anyone who thinks Cuba's relationship with the US, if it existed in the past 50 years, would bring anything but exploitation of Cuba lives under a rock. Cuba as an extraordinarily small and geographically vulnerable nation can't really be compared to Mexico (who has suffered by way of the US anyway) or Japan. The only reason Cuba didn't become Haiti (one of the poorest countries in the world, the wonderfully abused/ravaged/indebted democratic Haiti stands at #148 on the Human development index) is because of Castro
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Yeah, Castro did some good things (literacy, health care, etc), and some bad things (being a dictator, the whole persecution of gays thing). IMO, he started out with some good intentions but became corrupted overtime by power.
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I think anyone who thinks Cuba's relationship with the US, if it existed in the past 50 years, would bring anything but exploitation of Cuba lives under a rock. Cuba as an extraordinarily small and geographically vulnerable nation can't really be compared to Mexico (who has suffered by way of the US anyway) or Japan. The only reason Cuba didn't become Haiti (one of the poorest countries in the world, the wonderfully abused/ravaged/indebted democratic Haiti stands at #148 on the Human development index) is because of Castro ( ... )
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