Cuba - 4.9% infant mortality rate in 2011
FOR the last four years Cuba has achieved an infant mortality rate of below 5.0 per 1,000 live births, the lowest in the Americas together with Canada – sustained by the revolutionary government’s health policies which guarantee equality of access to medical services for mothers and children.
4.9% infant mortality rate in 2011Social justice is unmistakably revealed on observing the status of this indicator in the country’s 15 provinces and the special municipality of the Isle of Youth. None of those recording a result higher than the national average of 4.9 are not in excess of 7.9.
The United States, which has maintained its criminal economic blockade of the country for more than 50 years, records an infant mortality rate of 7.0 although, taking into account the humiliating inequalities between rich and poor, rates in areas inhabited by the most dispossessed are, on average, 2.5 times higher. Approximately seven million U.S. children lack any health coverage.
As is known, the infant mortality rate, which measures the risk of death during the first year of life – the most critical for human beings’ survival – is an expression of the quality with which a country treats and protects mothers and children, their health, their material security, education and socialization. Thus it is an international demographic indicator which demonstrates these advances in a synthetic way.
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/5ener-mortality.html
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and replace it with privatised medicine, just as they had before their 2nd revolution, when a vast number of poor Cuban people had to live with intestinal parasites in daily life.
They have been the target of the world's longest embargo because they have concluded they don't want to bow down to racist, filthy, brutal a-holes any longer.
The entire rest of the world has admired their superior medical system which treats all Cubans from infancy through all the stages of life.
Thank you, dipsydoodle. 
