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"Following the revolution, Castro set out to bring social welfare and land reform to the Cuban people and to confiscate the ill-gotten gains of the Cuban elite.
"But when the defeated Fulgencio Batista and his associates fled Cuba, they stole millions of pesos from the National Bank and the Treasury.
"The country was decapitalised, severely limiting the capacity for public spending and private investments.
"Wealthy Cubans were leaving the island, taking their deposits and taxes with them.
"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?
"We have to consider these real circumstances at every juncture.
"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.
"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated,
Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."
Imagine rich capitalists running instead of fighting for their country.
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Your link, moron.
"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"
Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?
"For example, when the US embargo was first implemented, 95% of Cuba’s capital goods and 100% of its spare parts were imported from the US – and the US was overwhelmingly the main recipient of Cuban exports.
How stupid was Castro to piss off the US, eh comrade?
"When the Soviet bloc disintegrated, Cuba lost 85% of its trade and investment, leading GDP to plummet 35%. These events produced serious economic constraints on Cuba’s room for manoeuvre."
Yeah, that was funny.
Your link, moron.
"How was the new government going to carry out the ambitious socio-economic reforms without financial resources?"
Don't you hate it when the greedy kulaks leave before you can rob and kill them?
Depends on how the greedy, capitalist Cuban Kulaks acquired their wealth. Since most of them became rich by exploiting Cuba's natural resources and labor pool, I would say they (and their families) were lucky to get out alive.
Cuba is poor, but who is to blame – Castro or 50 years of the US blockade? | LSE Latin America and Caribbean
"The specific and real challenges Cuban development has faced has generated unique contradictions.
"In a planned economy, with an extremely tight budget, they have had to prioritise: the infrastructure is crumbling and yet they have first-world human development indicators.
"Infant mortality rates reveal a lot about the standard of living, being influenced by multiple socioeconomic and medical factors.
"Cuba’s infant mortality rate is 4.5 per 1,000 live births, which sits it among first-world countries – and above the US on the CIA’s own ranking.
"It is not just Cubans who have benefited from these investments. Tens of thousands of Cuban doctors, educators and other development aid workers have served around the world.
"At present some
37,000 Cuban doctors and nurses work in 77 countries.
"They generate foreign exchange of some US$8 billion a year –
Cuba’s biggest export.
"In addition, Cuba provides both free medical treatment and free medical training to thousands of foreigners every year.
"As a direct initiative of Fidel, in 1999, the
Latin American School of Medicine was inaugurated in Havana to provide foreign students from poor countries with six years of training and accommodation completely free.
"In 2004, Cuba teamed up with Venezuela to provide
free eye surgery to people in three dozen countries under
Operation Miracle.
"In the first ten years more than 3m people had their sight restored."
How would capitalists pay for free eye surgery, Sap?