The Batista Regime

[Ortega]

I was just wondering if any of you had any statistics (e.g. amount of people killed, literacy rate, life expectancy, information on Batista's political repression) on the Batista Regime. Not much more to say other than that...

Thanks for any help.

---Ortega

[Morpheus]

The first one or the second one?

[Ortega]

Second.

[Monty Cantsin]

literacy rate 40%

[Solace]

Stats without source and background info is shit.

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*.pdf format though... and you won't like what you'll read in the 1st one if you are part of the Glorious Cuba Fan Club.

A Comparaison of Socioeconomics Indicators In Pre-Castro and Current Day Cuba (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba8/30smith.pdf)

Mortality Decline In Cuba 1900-1959 (http://136.142.158.105/Lasa2003/McGuireJames.pdf)

And I vague one: I once used an encyclopedia called Statistical Abstract of Latin America. You might find all sorts of cool stats for the period you are looking. I hope you find it, it's worth it.

[dark fairy]

im still confused about who exactly you guys are talking about ...
the guy before castro??? :unsure:

[Organic Revolution]

the guy before castro was a capitalist named batista who was over thrown by castros revolutionary forces.

[Ortega]

Originally posted by [email protected] 12 2004, 06:27 PM
Stats without source and background info is shit.

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*.pdf format though... and you won't like what you'll read in the 1st one if you are part of the Glorious Cuba Fan Club.

A Comparaison of Socioeconomics Indicators In Pre-Castro and Current Day Cuba (http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/asce/cuba8/30smith.pdf)

Mortality Decline In Cuba 1900-1959 (http://136.142.158.105/Lasa2003/McGuireJames.pdf)

And I vague one: I once used an encyclopedia called Statistical Abstract of Latin America. You might find all sorts of cool stats for the period you are looking. I hope you find it, it's worth it.
Very interesting, Solace. Thanks. I'm no Cuba-worshipper, but I do admire a lot about Castro.

[elijahcraig]

The problem is:

Batista's government received huge aid, and was a corporate slaveland compared with Castro's embargoed socialist workers' state.

And the fact that the author is completely biased. He called Castro "totalitarian"! What the hell kind of "analysis" is this? The State Department could have done as well.

[Monty Cantsin]

"A Comparaison of Socioeconomics Indicators In Pre-Castro and Current Day Cuba"

its seems to me that this list wants to paint a bar picture for cuba, what i want to know why doesnt it have say 58 stats and 2,000 stats (or what ever) but to keep the years the same because it seems to be that they change the year on each stat maybe this is so they can show the badest picture i dont know.