You are now aware that Cuba would be a First World country if the Communist had not taken over

still responsible for more science than the entire arab world.
youtube.com/watch?v=i0K7A_V7XHQ

I was under the impression that the literacy rates were atrocious pre revolution. Do you have a source?

>Portugal

>Implying Pre-Revolution Cuba wasn't a massively corrupt banana republic being propped up by the US
>Implying standards of living haven't actually gone up for a majority of the population, even if the gains are tiny

Cuba has always been a shithole.

Shut the hell up, fucking capitalist pig

This is just false. Cuba alredy have 0 nutritional or healthcare problems and there was a vibrant middle class.

>t. CIA
How the fuck can you think that Batista dindu nuffin?

He was so shitty that even the US government wanted nothing to do with him. They cut off weapons shipments and aid to his government, US ambassador refused to take an official position on the war between him and the rebels, that's a big part of why he fell.

Funny how that bit of information never makes it into the stories of the Che t-shirt gringo faggots over here, or my retarded cousins in Havana.

>You are now aware pre-revolution 1958 Cuba was already a relatively wealthy nation with near full literacy
You do know that Cuba's literacy rate in 1953 was 56%, right?

Pre-revolution Cuba was a corrupt banana republic knocked over by the US. Not directly, of course, I mean knocked over in the way that if you have a fire extinguisher, somebody is burning to death in front of you, and you refuse to save them, then it's your fault that they're dead.

Then it got replaced by a new corrupt banana republic. Only this one, in addition to the pre-revolution torture and indiscriminate murder/oppression, also provides regular meals and literacy training. So I guess it's an improvement. Still an absolute shithole of a country though.

>Extensive propaganda campaign carried out against president João Goulart
Yeah, right. You shouldn't believe this image.

I love how commies repeat the muh 100% literacy as if it's something interesting.

Yes, wow, everyone is able to read government propaganda, how cool is that?

>cuba has better literacy rate than the so called leader of the free world

Really makes you think.

You don't understand man, it's great that everyone can read and write! Makes it that much easier to toss them in prison if they write anything against the government.

I fucking hate how leftists over here trumpet Cuba's high literacy rate. Yes, it's nice that a poor agriculture-based nation has a literacy rate on par with ours. But somehow, we manage to have that without torturing/imprisoning anyone who disagrees with the government. Why can't Cuba do the same?

That definitely sounds like a first world country in the current year.

>trusting statistics from Castro's government

In other Castro-approved news, racism no longer exists in Cuba! They solved it all the way back in 1970, can you believe that? Terrific stuff, the fact that the poorest cubans are all black, the richest are all white, and blacks get arrested for even going near the white tourist hotels is just a collection of strange coincidences.

Oh, and everyone gets access to flawless medical care, please ignore the hospitals that are literally "Bring Your Own Antibiotics" with rusty tools/tables. The economy is terrific, too! Those young Cuban girls prostituting themselves out to fat Canadians are just doing it because they REALLY want to hear some chubby beta say "ooh, soory eh" as he cums into them. Basic goods and services are plentiful too, Cubans just don't want to re-paint their homes because they really dig the old-timey faded aesthetic.

Viva la revolucion!

A funny thing I learned from that video, along the point you're trying to make, is that the Arabic word for technology is from the English word for it (or some other Latin-based language) :D

fucking left-wing moronic gringo faggots. Move your asses down to Socialist Paradise Cuba and really enjoy the lifestyle over there. Should free up some tax dollars for the rest of us.

>Terrific stuff, the fact that the poorest cubans are all black, the richest are all white, and blacks get arrested for even going near the white tourist hotels is just a collection of strange coincidences.

I fucking love the way US leftists will protest the "institutional racism" of the US government, which had a black president, a black attorney general, etc., then turn around and say we should be more like Cuba, which has been completely ruled by whites, with blacks firmly at the bottom of society, from the very moment that "Cuba" became the name of the island. If the USA was 100% dominated by whites descended from one specific European group (Spaniards in the case of Cubans, I suppose it would be British for Americans), the leftist idiots here would have "literally shaken" themselves into a fucking coma.

It's almost as if crippling international sanctions hurt your economy.

>hey, we're better than a bunch of desert people, that's good, r-r-right?

>muh sanctions

FUCK OFF

sanctions don't make you throw people in prison every time they speak out

sanctions don't make you house nuclear missiles in your country and threaten to launch them at a potential trading partner, harming your own economy (you start that, you accept the fucking consequences)

sanctions don't make you build your economy on an unstainable system

sanctions don't tell you to trick innocent people in your country into thinking your country is "for the people" when it's nothing more than a generic run-of-the-mill republica falsa con caudillos that will slaughter anyone who tries to point out that we've gotten a pretty shit deal

I wish the gringos had annexed us 119 years ago. Things wouldn't be great, but at least my cousins wouldn't be begging for money/food and they could use the fucking internet or express their displeasure with the government without getting a lovely stay in that shitty torture factory of a prison on the outskirts of la habana.

How can you call yourself communist if the basis for your prosperity is commerce? And don't forget that the blockade was carried out by just one country.

If you're going to be an imperialist power, don't fucking half ass it. I will never understand this about the USA. You conquer a place, saying all the while "oh, we want freedom" and yeah, fine, whatever, like half the major imperial powers have done that.

But then you don't even try to govern your new territories. You put JUST ENOUGH of a presence there to make them resent you, but not enough to actually keep control. Either you go all the way with it, the way the Europeans did, or you don't do it at all. This halfway bullshit helps nobody.

South Korea, Taiwan, West Germany, Bosnia and Japan would disagree.

>a potential trading partner,

How else would you describe the world's largest economy, literally 90 miles away from your capital city? You think maybe siding with their sworn enemy and pointing IRBMs at their population centers might be a bad idea? You think that might have some negative long-term impacts on your economy?

Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Honduras, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam, China (US gave some aid, but not enough, to the KMT), Indonesia, and god knows how many other countries we don't know about would agree.

So can we agree that not all US interventions were absolutely good or bad? You also can't point to a country and say how evil it is for supporting coups and dictators without looking at the context of the Cold War. Both sides did horrible things, but because the US emerged the winner all anger is directed towards them. And let's be honest, countries supported by the US are now better off than the ones in which the USSR intervened.

Cuba isn't that bad compared to peers like Jamaica.

Cuba (and Puerto Rico) should have remained with Spain, and should be therefore reincorporated.

Sounds that Cubans have successfully created a racially harmonious society free of hate and intolerance.

>embargo cuba because they dare to reorganize their agrarian industries in a way that hurt american big businesses
>cut all diplomatic ties because following the embargo cubans dared to look for other trading partners
>launch a fucking invasion against cuba that fails
>then bitch and cry when cubans try seek shelter beneath soviet union's nuclear umbrella

Uruguay maybe but not Chile nor Argentina
Chile has the same issues of laziness and not arriving on time or working hard they try pretty hard though so i like them

Argentina is a shit hole and more dangerous than Brazil the difference being Argentina is more full of robberies and scams and Brazil full of homicides

sorry for the int heavy sounding post

Cuba was unironically months away from becoming literal Hibernian-Jewish-Italian mafia state.

But it is not unlikely that a safe haven for organized crime becomes a prosperous country.

>nationalise other countries' property
>wtf why are they sanctioning us :o

>they dare to reorganize their agrarian industries in a way that hurt american big businesses
The cuban government took over american companies owned by american citizens. If that's not an act of agression, I don't know what is.

When I was in Cuba, there was a blackout in the hotel. A horde of poor cubans came to loot the place and then ran away just as fast. Lovely beaches, though.

do people really think Cuba wouldn't have had a convenient "revolution" the minute it did something that went even slightly against US interests in favor of actually supporting their own people?

Fucks sake the CIA destroyed an entire country at the request of a banana company.

>Supporting their own people
Tell that to the ones risking the their lives on handmade boats (since owning one is forbidden) trying to escape.

just saying that without communism, it'd likely have been significantly worse if we go by what happened to every single central american country allied to the US

Isn't Cuba pretty well equipped to deal with things like energy crises and financial meltdowns since they're so disconnected from the global economy and were forced to develop forms of self-sufficiency?

Being integrated into neoliberal capitalism will likely be worse for Cuba in the long run, other than for the access to foreign technology.

It's almost as if having your country embargoed hurts your economy.

Spain, Argentina, Chile you stupid stormfag

>any of those
>first world

Might as well claim that China is first world too.

1/10
Very poor bait

I'd take living in any of those countries, except maybe for Honduras and El Slavador, over Cuba any day. At least I'm allowed to say what I want, do what I want and leave when I want.
Also, keep in mind that Cuba was significantly wealtheir than any Central American or Caribbean country before the revolution (mostly thanks to US influence), so they had a big headstart.

>Isn't Cuba pretty well equipped to deal with things like energy crises and financial meltdowns since they're so disconnected from the global economy and were forced to develop forms of self-sufficiency?
If you want to call blackouts and good shortages "well equipped", yes.

Is this bait?

>America exploits Cuba for generations
>Intervenes in their politics constantly to prop up bourgeois American parasites
>Castro Nationalizes the Industries in response
MUH NAP

Cuba used to be one of the richest and most developed countries in Latin America in the 1950s, but I disagree that it would have stayed so. The sexual revolution of the 1960s would have removed one of the main attractions Cuba had for U.S. tourists, which was its loose sexual mores, while the 1980s commodity crisis would have hurt its sugar and meat exports.

Not to mention that thanks to its location, Cuba could have easily become an station in the international drug trade, a deposit for drugs before they are sent to the U.S. If that happened, it would have become one of the most violent countries in the world, with dozens of thousands of drug-related murders every year.

I don't say this out of sympathy for the Castro regime, which is a failed state that only exists because they have a secret service with links to the Venezuelan and other Latin American regimes that send them money. It's just a fact, Cuba would be a shithole either way.

Cuba was a banana republic.
A shitty one at that.
Did they ever produce anything under Batista that was worthwhile that wasn't casinos and hookers?

Most of the musicians that would become famous as the "Buena Vista Social Club" were mainly active during the Batista era.

Arabs fucking love Hitler and will vote for another one in Germany soon.
youtube.com/watch?v=VcB_DZ4YQYQ

Oh wow Hookers,casinos AND Musicians.
Truly a great country.

Before 1959 the official literacy rate for Cuba was between 60% and 76%, largely because of lack of education access in rural areas and a lack of instructors.[4] As a result, the Cuban government of Fidel Castro at Che Guevara's behest dubbed 1961 the "year of education" and sent "literacy brigades" out into the countryside to construct schools, train new educators, and teach the predominantly illiterate guajiros (peasants) to read and write. The campaign was "a remarkable success." By its completion, 707,212 adults were taught to read and write, raising the national literacy rate to 96%.[4]

OP I magine you as a 12 year old who just discovered propaganda

San Marino

>shitkicking peasants are better off because they can decipher moon runes now

is this the power of Castro apologist intellectuals

>missing the point this hard
I think the point of the OP was that a 60% to 76% literacy rate in the 1950 was pretty fucking good. Look at the map, Cuba was on par with Spain or Greece. GDP per capita was also on par with Spain.

It is safe to say it would have achieved full literacy either way, it would be a First World nation today if it hadn't been for the Castros.