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- The Cuban revolution was never a class struggle it was fought and supported by the Cuban people (many from the upper classes) to get rid of a dictator, the return to the political path of democracy and restore all personal right as set forth in the 1940 constitution of Cuba. It was betrayed by Fidel Castro and the 26th of July movement who prevented the general elections scheduled for January of 1959, they utilized the same tactics which communists used in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to convince and subdue the masses, taking over all media and opposition to insure that people could not rebel against them, they were the ones who started a class and racial revolution setting them against each other but not against the revolution. In a nutshell, what made a small country such as Cuba rich was diversified large scale business and trade (capitalism) and the relaxation of investment laws, there was also a great deal of manufacturing specially after WWII.
An enduring myth is that 1950's Cuba was a socially and economically backward country whose development was jump-started by the Castro government. In fact, according to readily-available historical data, Cuba was an advanced country in 1958, certainly by Latin American standards and, in some areas, by world standards. The data appear to show that Cuba has at best maintained what were already high levels of development in health and education.
It is true that Cuba's infant mortality rate is the best in Latin America today, but it also was the best in Latin America -- and the 13th lowest in the world -- in pre-Castro Cuba. Cuba also has improved the literacy of its people, but Cuba had an excellent educational system and impressive 76% literacy rates in the 1950's.
On the other hand, many economic and social indicators have declined since the 1959 revolution. Pre-Castro Cuba ranked third in Latin America in per capita food consumption; today, it ranks last. Per capita consumption of cereals, tubers, and meat are today all below 1950's levels. The number of automobiles in Cuba has fallen since the 1950's -- the only country in Latin America for which this is the case. The number of telephone lines in Cuba also has been virtually frozen at 1950's levels. Cuba once ranked first in Latin America and fifth in the world in television sets per capita. Today, it barely ranks fourth in Latin America and is well back in the ranks globally.
Cuba's rate of development of electrical power since the 1950's ranks behind every other country in Latin America except Haiti. Cuba is the only country in the hemisphere for which rice production today is lower than it was four decades ago. By virtually any measure of macroeconomic stability, Cuba was in far better shape in 1958 than it is today. Finally, the Castro government shut down what was a remarkably vibrant media sector in the 1950's, when the relatively small country had 58 daily newspapers of differing political hues and languages ranking eighth in the world in number of radio stations and 5th in television. Beside the United States Cuba was the only country in the world to transmit color television in the world in the 1950's.
Some more facts.
The ONLY country in this entire continent whos currency,El Peso Cubano,was worth more than the American Dollar was La Republica de Cuba.
The FIRST hotel in the entire world to have CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING was the Hotel Riviera in Havava,Cuba.
The F.O.C.S.A building in Havanas Vedado was the tallest all concrete building in the entire world when it was built.A system of free enterprise,(LIBRE EMPRESA),is the ONLY economical model that brings prosperity to a nation.
Even China has had to change into a system of free enterprise because much like the soviet model,it was failing.Praise God.
Um dia voltará a ser livre!!!
eso si era un pais desarrollado ,limpio, con libertad , democracia y capitalismo,y llegaron los hermanos castros en Enero 1 de 1959,, sin disparar un tiro y lo cogieron todos masticaitos , desarrollados, el 3 pais mas desarrollados despues de Canada y U.S.A.,,1;02PM, 12/4/2018/,Raleigh,NC.
Saludos, Charlotte NC, Los Comunistas acabaron con nuestro pais. Que dolor 😥
Hello, I have a question. Now I'm looking for the footage which tells well about the city of Havana before the revolution. Your video was the best I/we found. I'd like to use a part of your clip in our TV program to show the audience how well the city was developed. Could you let me know if we can use it with a certain credit?
Feel free to use ...please keep me informed. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Our program aired on December 22. Here you can see the program story line, even though it is all in Japanese, My apologies...
www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/zipangu/backnumber/20141222/
My beautiful Cuba, we had it all , i remember how my parents lived..everything was great. I am in my 60's now, in 52 years never went back, how sad and tragic things turn out with the castros ambitions of power, they destroyed a beautiful country those bastards! So much potential and so many lives ruined....The great cuban revolucion= 60 years of misery, hunger and death!
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Sad the Bastard was a plain modern day "Ladron", Castro had plenty of help from somewhere, and we probably still don't know, is like we don't know who is killing our Country, we must find out before is too late.
🙏“Padre, sé que he violado tus leyes y mis pecados me han separado de ti. Realmente lo siento, y ahora quiero alejarme de mi vida pecaminosa pasada hacia ti. Perdóname y ayúdame a evitar volver a pecar. Creo que su hijo, Jesucristo, murió por mis pecados, resucitó de entre los muertos, está vivo y escucha mi oración. Invito a Jesús a convertirse en el Señor de mi vida, a gobernar y reinar en mi corazón desde este día en adelante. Por favor envía tu Espíritu Santo para ayudarme a obedecerte y hacer tu voluntad por el resto de mi vida. En el nombre de Jesús oro, Amén "
Amen amen y amen 🙏
Cuba siempre fue bella,prospera,independiente y la dictadura la ha destruido lastima que la generación actual no la conoció ni hace el intento por recuperarla
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Dear God🙏♥️💞 in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness.
I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin.
You said in the bible that if we confess the Lord our God and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we shall be saved.
Right now I confess Jesus as my Lord. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Amen.
Hermosa. Me hubiera gustado vivir en aquellos días.
lo dudo o quien saben,,yo naci en los 70 y a finales de ellos existian esos buses por suerte ya a mis 6 a~os fueron desapareciendo,,la primera vez que entre en un bus de eso miraba cada detalle y las lampara de adentro ni hoy con casi 50 puedo olvidar lo feas que era ,,creo que mi cerebro era muy moderno sobre todo tratandose de esos buses,,no asimile nunca lo que vi,,creo que por dentro eran mas feas que por fuera, los asinetos eran de piel y eran como cuando te sientas en un sofa sin divisiones de seciones,pero no erann imcomodos,incluso notaba rraro tocar los tubos de aguantarse
excellent commentary. from total ruin after 250,000 casualties of war in 1898 to the 29th largest economy in the world by 1958.
Ño, the year I was born. Que reverenda sadness, to see its past splendor.
My cousin used to run in those car races...also in France...
Cuando los gobiernos sobran, las personas emigran. No cabe duda
La gente que apoyaron a castro en 1959 deben de estar arrepentidas
Could you please cite your sources on pre-revolution conditions? These contradict the research I have done. Thanks for the video!
www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/cu/14776.htm
books.google.com/books?id=k186e30BHmgC&pg=PT682&lpg=PT682&dq=zenith+to+eclipse+cuba&source=bl&ots=UVE-hHYN22&sig=UhfCV9bmW2pZrGuibhjXNjaCxmA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=v9JNVPS9FI3IggSWmYLADQ&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=zenith%20to%20eclipse%20cuba&f=false
A UNESCO report on Cuba circa 1957 stated: “One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class.The U.S. Department of Commerce Guide for Businesses from 1956 stated: “Cuba is not an underdeveloped country.” In 1958, that “impoverished Caribbean island” had a higher per capita income than Austria and Japan and Cuban industrial workers had the 8th highest wages in the world. Cuba also had the hemisphere’s lowest inflation rate and her peso was always equal in value with the U.S. dollar. UN Statistical Yearbook 1958, US Dept. of State, Dept. of Commerce and UNESCO
A UNESCO report on Cuba circa 1957 stated: “One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class.The U.S. Department of Commerce Guide for Businesses from 1956 stated: “Cuba is not an underdeveloped country.” In 1958, that “impoverished Caribbean island” had a higher per capita income than Austria and Japan and Cuban industrial workers had the 8th highest wages in the world. Cuba also had the hemisphere’s lowest inflation rate and her peso was always equal in value with the U.S. dollar.
Dear Tyler...where do your sources come from...it's the other way around...you should look up the video "El Encanto (1 of 3) (2 of 3) (3 of 3), Cuba" in youtube...
My sources are scholarly books and articles from Rutledge, U of Florida Press, Princeton, etc., among Cuban economists and international relations scholars. However, I recognize everything comes with a bias, and I was intrigued by the data here. I also would not disregard the potential bias on a US government release of pre-Revolutionary Cuba, however, it has certainly been useful and interesting.
Is that how you cite sources? Naming universities? Rutledge, U of Florida Press, Princeton? And what did these sources do, live in Cuba back in the 1950's? What "facts" do the state? Where do they get those facts from? You could never publish anything citing such questionable and vague "sources". What "bias" are you refering to? Do you believe the free victims living in the US are unworthy sources, but the propaganda machine in Communist Cuba which allows no free press, no internet, and has "ministries of information"...is more reliable? I was trying to help you, silly me. I am just a Cuban who has lived this, what would I know, certainly non Spanish speaking, non-free Cuban northeastern sources would know much more, than an actual witness, eh? Amazing ...Cuba must be the only nation on Earth that is known more intimately by distant readers, than by the actual Cubans...amazing! Trust Nazi Germany, trust Goebells, the Jews have a bias. Brilliant thinking.
Me acuerdo d eso. Tenia 6 mujeres. Ya hoy ni se me para
🤣🤣 Esta muy viejo señor no es tiempo de eso
Havana was beautiful at that time, of course, the other cities too... but what about the RURAL Cuba? I'd like to watch videos or films about 1950's real situation of the Cuban peasants, farmers, etc. (their healthcare conditions, percentage of illiteracy, social welfare, etc.) ;)
Anything was better than the garbaje that the evil dictator fidel castro brought after 1959 lol.
Tabla .. better than in the USA and much better than 1950's Colombia, which was and still is plagued with poor healthcare, illiteracy, and no social welfare, .... HOWEVER FOR CUBA in the 1950's ...here are the FACTS...The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba in 1957 was higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. A report from the Geneva-based International Labor Organization that documented the following in 1957: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class," it starts. "Cuban workers are more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent. 44 per cent of Cubans are covered by Social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S." Does that answer your "question"?
Maybe thats why the people from the "other cities" are emigrating to Havana. You are a brainwashed idiot.
USAHavana Sure, thanks, bro! (y)
TheVikingtropical I said "at that time", in the fifties, before Communism, the other Cuban cities were as beautiful and prosperous as the Havana of this film, right? ;)
cuba democratica y libre
Evangelio para la salvación de tus almas💞💕💜💕❤💞💕💜
Porque ante todo les transmití a ustedes lo que yo mismo recibí: que Cristo murió por nuestros pecados según las Escrituras, que fue sepultado, que resucitó al tercer día según las Escrituras, y que se apareció a Pedro, y luego a los doce. Después se apareció a más de quinientos hermanos a la vez,
❤💞💞❤The Gospel of salvation of our souls:💜💕💜💖💞💜💕For what I received I passed on to you as of [first importance]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time,
Sad!!! My country stripped from our lives because of communism since 1958
4:53 los pobres cubanos kisieran comerse panes como esos. Solo los del gobierno c llenan sus panzas todos los dias mientras el pueblo c muere d hambre
aveces pienso que pude haber llegado a nacer en cuba mi vida seria muy diferente actualmente me toco nacer en argentina
Y la destrucción total desde el día, 1 de enero de 1959
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If Batista was socialist the whole country didn't look like it! A socialist country is the way it's been since 1959!
No a Socialist country. A Castrista/Communist country.
Batista at the beginning of his political career would be rightly called a "Social Democrat", which means 'moderate left'. It was he who transformed Cuba into a modern democracy in the 1940s based on a constitution he wrote himself, but after WWII had to change course as incompetent and corrupt presidents pushed the country to the verge of the abyss: in 1952 Cuba was no longer governable with an endless coming and going of governments, and Batista by instigating a coup proclaimed himself President of Cuba for lifetime. His administration of Cuba after 1952 is best compared with a Dictatorship which both supports free trade and economy and leaves to the people all personal freedom.
You can fantasize about that time all you want. But the fact is that you can’t criticize today’s Cuba and want the old one back. Only the people that live there can judge
Is no fantasize, my Marxist admirer, is fact.
Fran Veneri
Great video
Tony
Excellent video
...Cubans live under an impoverishing AND OPPRESSIVE SOCIALIST REGIME, WHERE ONLY THE DICTSTORIAL RAUL CASTRO DECIDES ..YOU CAN'T BE THAT IGNORANT...
I most certainly can and often do..
Cuba still wasn't a 100% "Free" country that lived by capitalism before castro took over because batista was a socialist himself, he even said so.
Communist = poor