For comparison, see "Haiti, Republic Of"
Cuba is ranked 52nd in the 2005 Human Development Report, with an HDI value of 0.817.
Life expectancy at birth is 77.3, #30, the US is #29 with 77.4 for comparison
Cuba’s infant mortality rate, 16 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000.
Criticize Castro all you want. As an anarchist I am also critical of Statist regimes, but all of them, I don't mimic the propaganda industry in reserving particular vitriol for enemies of the US.
Compared with other actual States, claiming that Cuba has accomplished nothing for it's people is just reactionary bunk.
-- Dmytri Kleiner <dk at telekommunisten.net> editing text files since 1981
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