..past and present. And no doubt future, unless We the People decide to elect people who represent us, and not special interest groups, lobbyists, corporations, etc.....etc....etc....
Castro's big thing was to become the number one supplier of sugar.
The Ten Million Ton Sugar Harvest (La Zafra de los Diez Millones)* Manuel R. Moreno Fraginals and Teresita Pedraza Moreno
In 1970, the Cuban government attempted to culminate an economic plan, conceived late in 1963 that aspired to break all historic sugar production records by producing a ten million-ton sugar harvest. The 1964-1970 pro-sugar economic strategy indicated a reversal of the original economic program stated by the leadership upon the triumph of the Revolution in 1959. In reality, the turn-about responded to the failure of the imports-substitution strategy adopted between 1960 and 1963. During that period, sugar production had been neglected as agricultural diversification became the goal and most resources were channeled to achieve the accelerated industrialization of the country.
It's a lengthy article but he was hardly a socialist in his attempt to become #1 in sugar production. Back then I knew several people in college who actually went to Cuba by was of Canada to help in the harvest.
It was a loser because of the decline in infrastructure among other problems.
Why Cuba never got back into the gambling resort business has always been a mystery to me. Sure Batista was a crook but Castro should have had the smarts enough to realize FL was only 90 miles away and all those Yankee dollars were beckoning.
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