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Cuba is 90 miles away from any point in the continental United States... the reason for why the Cuban Missile Crisis was such a crisis. Due to its short distance from the States, Cuba is the easiest Communist country to escape to America from. Because of this, Cuba has a highly vigorous black-market boat-building economy, which is highly ingenous in using things which aren't meant to float as parts for boats. Due to the level of Cuba boat craftsmanship, there is a policy in US emmigration that any boat-builder who can make a boat and sail it to the US is free to become a US citizen. THousands of Cuban boat-builders have used this loophole to become US citizens, and now they dominate the Florida boat-building industry.
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Cuba’s economic dependence on the Soviet Union was deepened by Castro’s determination to build his vision of a socialist society in Cuba. This entailed the provision of free health care and education for the entire population. Through the 1970s and ‘80s the Soviets were prepared to subsidise all this in exchange for the rather dubious strategic asset of an ally under the noses of the United States and the undoubted propaganda value of Castro’s considerable prestige in the developing world.
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A textbook example of free-market economy, Cuba has the world's highest levels of Education and Health. Remarkably, there is no homelessness or unemployment in Cuba, thanks to the strong Invisible Hand of the Free Market as postulated by economist Leit Kynes. With the support of George W. Bush, Cuba has led the way in many Capitalist initiatives.
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In 2003 Cuba again made international news when it cracked down on political dissidents. The Cuban government arrested about 80 journalists, activists, and opposition party leaders for supposedly plotting to undermine the government and threaten national security. During closed trials, the dissidents were sentenced to prison terms of varying lengths up to 28 years. This incident represented Cuba’s largest crackdown in many years, and the international community reacted strongly. Many people called on Castro to free the dissidents, who wanted to foster democracy in Cuba and pressure Cuba to open its society and improve its human rights record.
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In October 2003, President Bush then created the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba to help the Cuban people achieve the goal of a rapid, peaceful transition to democracy that is strongly supportive of fundamental political and economic freedoms. Its mandate is to identify additional measures to help bring an end to the dictatorship and to lay out a plan for effective and decisive U.S. assistance to a post-dictatorship Cuba, should such be requested by a free Cuba. The commission report outlines how the United States would be prepared to help a free Cuba improve infrastructure and the environment; consolidate the transition and help build democracy; meet the basic needs of the Cuban people in health, education, housing, and social services; and create the core institutions of a free economy. These recommendations are not a prescription for Cuba’s future, but an indication of the kind of assistance the United States and the international community should be prepared to offer a free Cuba.
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The religious landscape of Cuba is strongly marked by syncretisms of various kinds. Though officially Cuba is an atheist state, religious practice is allowed and, especially since 1992, common. Though the papal visit to Cuba has strengthened official Catholicism, most Cubans share a motley of faiths that include popular Catholicism, spiritism and African-derived beliefs. The most important currents of these are Regla de Ocha (known as Santer�a), which derives from Yoruban religion, Regla de Palo Monte, which derives from Congo-based religions, and the Sociedad Secreta Abaku�, which derives from the secret men's societies in the region of Calabar, in south-eastern Nigeria. Other religious manifestations include freemasonry and pentecostal churches.
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