Cuba - Failed State? In 1959, the Cubans promised the socialist paradise. Today it is obvious that the plan has failed

The Cuban authorities object to Cuba to be called Failed State - an failed state. “The scenario that should be the US government is to try to show Cuba as a failed state,” said Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilia in his speech before the diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba.

How right are those who claim that the Cuban state is really Failed? Among the defining elements characterizing the failed state, economic characteristics are fundamental.

On February 19, 1959, six days after taking office, Fidel Castro announced the government program. “Agricultural production will increase markedly, the consumer ability of the peasant population will double, and the cube will change the terrifying figure of chronic unemployment, reaching the standard of living for people than that of any other country,” he said. For this, foreign and Cuban companies were expropriated. Three years later, in March 1962, food books had to be introduced in Cuba.

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