I just finished reading a portuguese article about the pre revolution cuba (a english source of the many used by the article), one thing that got me by surprised was that the average cuban per capita income were of US$ 11,3 thousand dollars (almost ten thousand dollars more than today)
Then I searched on wikipedia (I know, a not so good source, but still) and I found that "Although a third of the population still lived in poverty, Cuba was one of the five most developed countries in the region. In the 1950s, Cuba's GDP per capita was roughly equal to that of Italy at the time" and "Moreover, despite the fact that corruption and inequality were rife under Batista, Cuban industrial workers' wages rose significantly"
So have the Cuban revolution to fail, maybe a better led and trained cuban army crushes Fidel insurrection, maybe the americans intervene, it doesn't matter, just have the revolution to fail
The question is: Would Cuba today be better off if the revolution failed?
Then I searched on wikipedia (I know, a not so good source, but still) and I found that "Although a third of the population still lived in poverty, Cuba was one of the five most developed countries in the region. In the 1950s, Cuba's GDP per capita was roughly equal to that of Italy at the time" and "Moreover, despite the fact that corruption and inequality were rife under Batista, Cuban industrial workers' wages rose significantly"
So have the Cuban revolution to fail, maybe a better led and trained cuban army crushes Fidel insurrection, maybe the americans intervene, it doesn't matter, just have the revolution to fail
The question is: Would Cuba today be better off if the revolution failed?