Reply #172: Castro Falsifies His Health & Education Statistics

[VivaBatista]

There is a difference of 50 years between Batista's statistics and Castro's. For its time, pre-Castro Cuba was the most advanced nation socioeconomically in Latin America, outpacing many European countries, such as Great Britain. This cannot be said of Cuba today.

As for Castro's infant mortality statistics, Nicholas Everstadt of the Harvard Center for Populations Studies demonstrated, in a Wall Street Journal article some years ago, that they had been falsified by the regime, and, in actuality, stood at more than 46 deaths per thousand births, higher than in the Batista era (37.6).