Essay On Cuban Embargo

The conclusion is that there are some ways to improve Cuba, but without trade (because of the unjust embargo the United States has placed on Cuba) the economy will stay in the dust, unless foreign aid is given to Cuba that is similar to the aid that was given to them by the Soviet Union during the cold war. While solving housing problems can be attempted by replacing the infrastructure in Cuba. But as long as money is not passing through many hands, Cuba will not improve economically. Personally I think that this country will stay poor as long as it is not adopting capitalism, because being communist and next to the biggest capitalist super power is a foolish move and because of that Cuba is suffering from the embargo. If Cuba changes to capitalism

Surprisingly Cuba has a really high literacy rate and does not have any health issues at all; this is credited to Batista, Guevara, and Castro. The main problem with Cuba is that wages given to workers are not high, thus one third of the population lives in poverty. Wages in Cuba are not high because many people are already competing for work, which is not logical. This problem is not logical because the literacy rate in Cuba is high which should mean that workers are professional and have high wages, which is not the case in Cuba. Another problem faced by Cuban citizens is housing, many of the infrastructure in Cuba was built by the Spanish colony and was not improved for the next 5 centuries. Because of Cuba’s climate Cuban citizens face many destructive hurricanes that cause many citizens to be homeless with nowhere to live because the government can’t provide them with

The first person to discover the island of Cuba is Christopher Columbus; he named it Isla Juana “the island of Juan” after the prince Juan of Asturias in Spain, thus claiming Cuba as a Spanish colony. The Spanish colonization of Cuba lasted 406 years (1492 A.D. - 1898 A.D.). In 1511, the first Spanish settlement was founded by “Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar” at Baracoa. When the Spanish colonized Cuba, they enslaved the Taino and forced them under an unjust feudal system. Soon all of the indigenous people got wiped out by disease and harsh treatment by the colony. Cuba gained its independence as a state in 1902, after the Spanish-American war. In 1906, the first formal President of the Independent Republic of Cuba was Tomas Estrada Palma. He faced an armed revolt, which later cause d the U.S. to intervene and introduce an American governor who introduced political corruption to Cuba. Because of the political corruption, Cuba faced poverty and lack of equality, which later on caused the revolution led by Fulgecio Batista. After the revolt the 1940 Cuban constitution was made that offered workers medical and economic rights. For the next two and a half decades Batista dominated the political warfare by controlling puppet-presidents behind the scenes. Cuba then faced countless uprisings