Latin America
Related: About this forumCuba: from a US miserable brothel to one of the most developed countries of the Americas
Life expectancy at birth (women and men, years)Canada: 82.9/78.3
United States: 81.4/76.9
Cuba: 80.8/76.7
Chile: 81.6/75.5
Argentina: 79.1/71.6
Mexico: 78.7/73.8
Venezuela: 76.8/70.9
Colombia: 76.7/69.2
Peru: 75.9/70.5
Brazil: 76.0/68.7
Bolivia: 67.7/63.4
Haiti: 63.0/59.5
Infant mortality rate (per 1 000 live births)
Canada: 4.8
Cuba: 5.1
United States: 5.9
Chile: 7.2
Argentina: 13.4
Mexico: 16.7
Venezuela: 17.0
Colombia: 19.1
Peru: 21.2
Brazil: 23.5
Bolivia: 45.6
Haiti: 62.4
Education: Government expenditure (% of GDP)
Cuba: 13.3
Bolivia: 6.3
United States: 5.7
Brazil: 5.0
Canada: 4.9
Mexico: 4.8
Colombia: 3.9
Argentina: 3.8
Venezuela: 3.7
Chile: 3.4
Peru: 2.5
Deaths by assault (women and men, per 100 000)
Canada: 0.9/2.3
Argentina: 1.6/9.1
Cuba: 3.0/9.1
Chile: 1.3/10.4
United States: 2.5/9.7
Mexico: 2.4/16.7
Venezuela: 3.2/53.8
Bolivia: N.A.
Colombia: N.A.
Peru: N.A.
Haiti: N.A.
Brazil: N.A.
Seats held by women in national parliaments (%)
Cuba: 43.2
Argentina: 39.8
Mexico: 28.2
Peru: 27.5
Canada: 22.1
Venezuela: 18.6
Bolivia: 16.9
United States: 16.8
Chile: 15.0
Brazil: 9.0
Colombia: 8.4
Haiti: 4.1
Source: http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/first.shtml
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Cuba is known everywhere (except for those in the US who don't bother to read much!) for its impressive great, great effort, set in motion immediately after the revolution, to make sure that all those people, (the vast majority of Cubans who had been ignored by the greedy, racist criminals of right-wing, US-supported, corporation-and-Mafia-dominated Cuba, US President George H W Bush's father, Prescott Bush (grandfather of George W. Bush, also a president) owned a lot of land in Cuba, himself.
George H W Bush made it his business to work his whole life with the CIA of which he had been the director, and the Miami murderers, and teams of assassins, to overthrow the People's Revolution) were FINALLY given adequate shelter, running water, actual bathrooms, food, medical treatment for EVERYONE, not just the wealthy, (many of the people had been living with internal parasites, without treatment) and finally a chance to learn to read, and to be able to have the educations they had steadfastly been denied.
You've noticed there are clowns from the right-wing who completely blow past these basic, NECESSARY elements needed by every single person living in any modern society. They ignore the truth, and try to fill all openings with their crap manufactured for mass consumption in order to deceive those too stupid to think.
There's so much deliberate deception flying in the propaganda S###storm set aloft at times that sometimes it's just easier to let it go than to take the time to respond to pure garbage.
As you notice, a few facts always do win the day!
So glad to see your post.
By the way, I have NEVER seen that landscape at your link. How amazing. Not the first enormously tremendous surprise you have shared. Thank you, so much!
On edit:
I forgot to mention how interesting it is to see how well Canada does, also, with its socialized programs for human beings!
HeartachesNhangovers
(814 posts)no matter how good their stats look.
OBenario4
(252 posts)We just need a corporatocracy with fake elections where the people have no real voice and mainstream media calling it a "democracy".
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