Hmm. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/428h qboo.asp >..."Castro is under far greater pressure now than in the 1990s. "In a country where unemployment and underemployment taken together exceed 50 percent, the average GDP per capita is a mere $1,500, less than every other western hemisphere nation except Haiti," notes Jerry Haar of the University of Miami. http://www.google.com/search?q=GDP+per+capita+cUBA http://www.google.com/search?q=GDP+per+capita+cUBA+hAITI Cuba $1,669 $18,600 11,141,997 96% .046% GDP Population Literacy % of World GDP Haiti $1,340 $9,200 6,867,995 45% .023% http://www.bartleby.com/151/a64.html http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/gdp_- _per_capita.html (Heh, Yoshie has cited the CIA World Fact Book before!) Haiti: purchasing power parity - $1,800 (2000 est.) Cuba: purchasing power parity - $1,700 (2000 est.) Michael Pugliese