It’s unfortunate that we will never know if the Cuban model could fully succeed. The USA couldn’t take that chance so has had to economically throttle the country for over 60 years. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Cuba had been free to trade with the world. Would corruption have taken over? Would they still spend large amounts of GDP on their people? It’s clear the the USA thought they could make it work and the capitalists couldn’t have that ideological competition right on their doorstep. American citizens might have noticed. As it is, we don’t have enough info to know whether the internal problems could have been overcome or whether they would have gotten worse with a larger economy.
It’s unfortunate that we will never know if the Cuban model could fully succeed. The USA couldn’t take that chance so has had to economically throttle the country for over 60 years. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if Cuba had been free to trade with the world. Would corruption have taken over? Would they still spend large amounts of GDP on their people? It’s clear the the USA thought they could make it work and the capitalists couldn’t have that ideological competition right on their doorstep. American citizens might have noticed. As it is, we don’t have enough info to know whether the internal problems could have been overcome or whether they would have gotten worse with a larger economy.