Cuba already had one of the highest literacy rates in Latin America by 1950, nearly a decade before Castro took power, according to United Nations data.
As for health care and education, Cuba was already near the top of the heap before the revolution.
Cuba has made less progress in health care and life expectancy than most of Latin America in recent years, due to its decrepit health care system.
"One of the myths Canadians harbor about Cuba is that its people may be poor and living under a repressive government, but they have access to quality health and education facilities," the Post said.
Cuba in 1957 had 45 TVs per 1000 people-fifth highest in the world Today? Today the UN puts Cuba's HDI in the range of Mexico.
"Havana was a glittering and dynamic city. Cuba ranked fifth in the hemisphere in per capita income, third in life expectancy, second in per capita ownership of automobiles and telephones, first in the number of television sets per inhabitant. The literacy rate, 76%, was the fourth highest in Latin America. Cuba ranked 11th in the world in the number of doctors per capita. Many private clinics and hospitals provided services for the poor. Cuba's income distribution compared favorably with that of other Latin American societies. A thriving middle class held the promise of prosperity and social mobility."
In 1989, he published a newspaper column claiming that Fidel Castro's Cuba had "No hunger, is educating all of its children and is providing high quality, free health care."
https://fee.org/articles/no-fidel-castro-didnt-improve-health-care-or-education-in-cuba/
As for health care and education, Cuba was already near the top of the heap before the revolution.
Cuba has made less progress in health care and life expectancy than most of Latin America in recent years, due to its decrepit health care system.
"One of the myths Canadians harbor about Cuba is that its people may be poor and living under a repressive government, but they have access to quality health and education facilities," the Post said.
Cuba in 1957 had 45 TVs per 1000 people-fifth highest in the world Today? Today the UN puts Cuba's HDI in the range of Mexico.
"Havana was a glittering and dynamic city. Cuba ranked fifth in the hemisphere in per capita income, third in life expectancy, second in per capita ownership of automobiles and telephones, first in the number of television sets per inhabitant. The literacy rate, 76%, was the fourth highest in Latin America. Cuba ranked 11th in the world in the number of doctors per capita. Many private clinics and hospitals provided services for the poor. Cuba's income distribution compared favorably with that of other Latin American societies. A thriving middle class held the promise of prosperity and social mobility."
In 1989, he published a newspaper column claiming that Fidel Castro's Cuba had "No hunger, is educating all of its children and is providing high quality, free health care."
https://fee.org/articles/no-fidel-castro-didnt-improve-health-care-or-education-in-cuba/
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