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Now, most everyone is poor, all the buildings are decrepit and few have plenty. International figures show 88% of Cubans live at the poverty level, a jump of 13% from the previous figures.
After the revolution, Cuba established a free public health system. [26] Cuba's life expectancy at birth is 79.87 years (77.53 for males and 82.35 for females). This ranks Cuba 59th in the world and 4th in the Americas, behind Canada, Chile and the United States. [364]
Cuba’s minimum wage is only $7.50 a month at the black market rate, which is the one that average Cubans use for their everyday transactions. A pack of 30 eggs costs the equivalent of nearly two ...
Unlike in most of Latin America, but like many nations of the Caribbean and some of Central America, football is not a major game in Cuba, but is gaining popularity. Baseball is the most popular sport in Cuba. Introduced by American dockworkers in Havana in the 19th century, the game has played a role in Cuban independence from Spain.
The United States has blamed Cuba's inability to provide basic services like electricity for the exodus, while the Cuban government attributes the mass departures to the United States embargo against Cuba and its policy of granting benefits to Cuban migrants, even those arriving illegally. [2]
On Tuesday, State Department officials announced the removal of Cuba from a US list of countries that support terrorism, also saying that Cuban officials had agreed to a Vatican request to free ...
In 2020, the economic situation in Cuba worsened. The Cuban economy contracted by 10.9% in 2020, and by 2% in the first six months of 2021. [11] The economic crises emerged from a combination of factors, [46] [47] including reduced financial support (subsidized fuel) from Cuba's ally Venezuela, the United States embargo against Cuba and United States sanctions (tightened by the Trump ...
The Cuba de ayer was much more economically advanced than the Cuba of today. In order to return Cuba to the economic successes of the Cuba de ayer Cuban exiles will have to intervene and reconstruct Cuba as a capitalistic and democratic society. Resident Cubans lack the economic tools and moral character to reconstruct the Cuba de ayer so Cuban ...