Havana Times: Cuba Is One of the Safest Countries
Cuba Is One of the Safest Countries
November 11, 2013
Elio Delgado Legon
HAVANA TIMES — Though some refuse to acknowledge it, the positive results of the social transformations undertaken in Cuba following the triumph of the revolution in 1959 are plain to see and within everyone’s reach.
Many aren’t aware of these changes because they take them for granted – over 70 percent of Cuba’s current population was born after the revolution and did not experience what came before. Cuba’s past, which resembles the present of many countries in Latin America and other parts of the world, was fraught by every imaginable calamity. I will mention only some, to enlighten the younger readers and refresh the memory of those intent on denying what cannot be denied.
The illiteracy and low level of schooling in which Cuba’s population was maintained was one of the great obstacles to development. This was coupled with high unemployment and the precariousness of work in the countryside, where there was a certain degree of abundance only during the short three months of the sugar harvest. Because of this, most of the Cuban people lived in abject poverty, completely uncertain about their future.
That economic panorama made it impossible for the country to even consider developing a tourist industry, which would have been a significant source of employment and a means of securing hard currency for the country.
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I've spent 6 weeks there in total and always felt safe.
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They all love it. No one I know understands the USA's ridiculous attitude towards Cuba.
Sadly, I do.
USA does NOT want sovereign nations next to them (or anywhere else in the World) that do not bow to their wishes.
Thanks to Martin and Harper -
we bow . . . .
CC
