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Out In Left Field: Cuba’S Post-Cold War Strikeout, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Out In Left Field: Cuba’S Post-Cold War Strikeout, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article studies the Cuban situation in four parts. First, it reviews whether Cuba actually fits basic expectations of "Third World country" status. As discussed in Part I, the figures of social and human development indicators, as well as economic development figures, reveal that Cuba does not match the definition neatly. Its health, education, and welfare figures rival those of industrial states. Economic development figures, however, paint a completely different picture. Economic considerations certainly permit labelling the island as a "developing country," particularly since the onset of the 1986 recession, as exacerbated by the demise of communism and Cuba's consequent …