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The quote I used happened to be incongruent with the source I linked, so I'm sorry for that - I wasn't trying to be disingenuous. That said, you asked for statistics and I have provided them - Cuba in terms of poverty isn't as bad as most of its peers in South America.

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Cuba's poverty is only relatively good (ie not actually good) when you restrict its peers to the countries of South America.

But when you consider that when Cuba transitioned to communism it was a fully developed economy not a developing country you can understand how badly they have regressed.

And of course, this regression has nothing to do with US sanctions during the period.

The world is probably not as black and white as we might think at first glance.

Oh yeah, Cuba definitely regressed because of the US embargoes. What's the excuse of every other communist country in the world again?

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