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aims and results of policies Castro - Coggle Diagram
aims and results of policies Castro
economic
around before 1960's: high unemployment, Castro gave them more rights, shorter working hours, and paid more fairly, 1965 production fell due to less motivation to work hard but there is also the US trade embargo to take into account
Rectification campaign 1986-1987, public apoligizing shows humility of Castro
agrarian reform laws
The special period
mid-1990's US dollars allowed as currency
political
public punishment of criminals (TV, sport stadium)
secret police established
cultural
social
illegal to discriminate due to race aor gender, sexuality still permited to discriminate
free universal health care and education, high-quality education, literacy rate 78% to 99.8% from 1953-2014
vaccination campaign 1962
investment in rural infrastructure for health care to acces most remote parts
Food Programme
women and minorities
illegal to discriminate due to race or gender, sexuality still permited to discriminate
extend to which authoritarian control was achieved
media: silence anti-revolutionary media, "interrest of public security", profesors and journalist threatened with dismissal or arrest, mewspapers, magazines and radio threatened with closure, no imprisoment of killing allowed to go in Exile (Exoduses)