Word: cuban
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Cuba's past underdevelopment is a myth. Dependence on agriculture is one of the signs of underdevelopment in a nation. A 1953 census revealed that only 30.5 per cent of the Cuban population labored in agriculture compared to the average of 55 per cent for the rest of South America (from the book Underdeveloped Countries by Ives Lacoste. Buenos Aires, 1962). A national income of 2.200 million dollars ranked Cuba 40th out of 91 countries studied in the "Atlas of Economic Development" by Professor Morton Ginzberg, Chicago University Press. 1961. It ranked fifth in Latin America. Studies...
...leaders, admitted ( Verde Oliro. July 30- 1961) that Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in the Western hemisphere prior to the Revolution. The 1953 census showed that Cuba had 55?.780 units of housing, or one for every 12.9 inhabitants: that 23.9 per cent of the Cuban labor force worked in the industrial sector. A total of 2,340 industries existed in 1953. Their production annually amounted to half the national product. Only half this amount was obtained from sugar production...
...level of Cuban education was very high as acknowledged by UNESCO in 1960. Cuba had fifty thousand university-trained teachers. Public elementary schools had an enrollment of 200.000. There were six universities on the island, of them three private and three public with no tuition. Cuban texts were used in several other Latin American countries. About 80 per cent of the population could read and write. The U. N. statistical yearbook of 1?5? shows Cuba having 3.8 university students per 1000 ??????, well above the 2.6 average for Latin America. ( Sta???? Annual...
...Cuban economy has been described as an ominous c????? Che ????? said in an article for Verde Olivo Magazine of April 9, 1961 (quoted from the book...
...much of his life. He said that he had found it necessary to conceal this fact prior to the Revolution and also to conceal the real nature of his movement in order to gain power. Thus deceitfully he acquired power with the help of the majority of the Cuban people. The Communist Party numbered only 30.000 members in 1952. Castro has broken his word many times. It is difficult to understand how some people who complain about the credibility gap of their own government can ignore Castro's flagrant breaches of truth...