| Rancid – Radio Havana Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[cocainacouture:42734] This is just not true. Havana was a popular tourist location, but Cuba elsewhere was very, very poor. It was colonized by Spain and the U.S. and was purposefully underdeveloped. Havana was a playground for the capitalists from both of those places. In fact, prostitution was extremely prevalent prior to the revolution. It wasn’t until after the revolution and women (and all people) were guaranteed rights to housing, medicine, education, and food, that prostitution started to fall. Literacy rates were so low prior to 1959. Now Cuba has one of the highest literacy rates in the world - higher than the U.S. Cuba did not decline because of communism. It was already a very poor place for most people. Cuba, despite brutal retaliation from capitalist dictators, got better after the revolution, again, despite blockades by imperialists. When one asks, “Was Cuba better of before or after the revolution,” one also must ask, “Better off for whom?” | |
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