No wonder over 30,000 Cubans fled to the U.S.
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Tourists to Havana see a once magnificent city - it had more movie theatres than New York City - now a populated ghost town, with crumbling infrastructure and atrocious public transit. Trained engineers and professors aspire to drive cabs and wait tables so that they can sustain their families on tourists’ tips.īut tough times under Castro meant good times for Canadians, who enjoy cheap vacations, subsidized by Cuban labour. Cuba’s standard of living now ranks alongside Albania’s and Sri Lanka’s. One has to ask what education means in a country that has little to read and what remains is filtered through Marxist ideology. Today Cuba has over 30 universities and institutes - just no access to modern textbooks, Internet, email or international media and academic journals. Cuba’s spending on education in the 1950s was the highest in Latin America as a share of GDP. The Castro government boasts about its education system, but according to the UN, pre-revolution Cuba already had a literacy rate higher than Spain’s at the time. By the late 1950s, Cuba had more doctors per capita than the U.K. Today, hard currency is earned by sending talented doctors abroad while their families are held back to discourage defections.
and the lowest infant-mortality rate in Latin America and the 13 th-lowest in the world. Article contentīy the late 1950s, Cuba had more doctors per capita than the U.K. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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