how did the president of cuba managed to keep his country under control?

Question

1. how did castro managed to overcome poor education in his country?
2. why is the cuban goverment not corrupt like any other nation in SOUTHERN AMERICA?

Answer 1

...because that was his priority. TO give Cuba back to the People!! Cuba now has education, healthcare that is not only efficient in their own country, but able to EXPORT to other developing nations. They have helped liberate Namibia, South Africa (other African nations) from Apartheid...(Nelson Mandela considers Castro one of his BEST FRIENDS) and CLOSEST ALLIES) Cuba is not corrupt because it represents THE PEOPLE...unlike the US, which represents the CORPORATIONS.
Cuba also has nobel prize winners, is always in the top 10 at the olympics....Cuba is a model country for developing nations. Just imagine how advanced they would be without the Trade Embargo. Most Americans are legitimate retards (sorry) when it comes to other countries...most notable Cuba.
Cuba = Forever!
USA = Never!

Answer 2

Castro has managed to keep his country under control partially by ruthlessly suppressing opposition, particularly in the early days when Che was the Marat of the Cuban Revolution, and by being genuinely liked by a lot of the Cuban people.

The education and health systems are both good because a political decision was made to devote scarce resources to those spheres even when the economy was was bad.

As for corruption read the Cuban official paper "Granma". You will find that there is officially acknowledged corruption in Cuba and a campaign is being mounted to combat it.

Answer 3

(1) Castro is highly popular in Cuba.
(2) Dissenters are treated harshly. Many have been imprisoned and tortured. (Unlike Bush, Castro doesn't feel the need to pass laws that allow him to torture enemies of the state -- nor does he need to have them flown off to secret prisons in Syria, Egypt, or Eastern Europe -- his secret police just does it.)
(3) The American embargo has actually supported his regime by allowing him to blame the embargo for many of the economic problems and also it has unified the country in anti-Americanism. It allows Castro to present himself as the defender of Cuba.
(4) Most Cubans are actually well educated -- better on average than in the USA -- and illiteracy in adults has been non-existent since 1961. Cuba doctors are among the best trained in Latin America and Cubans have a much better knowledge of world affairs than most Americans.
(5) Most Cubans know that when Castro dies the resistance against the USA will die with him. They know that Cuba will be turned into a island holiday resort and brothel for Americans.
(6) While I think that all the talk about Castro's hidden fortune is just US propaganda, cuban governmental officials are just as corrupt as officials in South America generally.

Answer 4

Why hes done so well that other than the thousands of people starving over there they try to get to America in boats, stowing away in the landing gear of airliners, on rafts, and asking for political asylum when they come over here for sporting events. The control he has is from fear. Speaking out against Castro is a guaranteed prison term, or a shot to the head
PS Jaco Cuba is an Island not part of South America

Answer 5

Castro controls his country just the same as any other dictator.
Get out of line or cause some trouble and you just disappear, never to be heard from again.
Get the idea?
Castro is the government, who knows how corrupt he is.
He overcame poor education by closing the schools.
HE'S A DICTATOR. GET IT?

Answer 6

We. I should say our government, condemn Castro, because he is a communist. Yes, he did some bad things and it was rough for awhile but for the most part he replaced a United States endorsed dictator. Batista. For the most part Cuba has lived in the good old days since we, put Cuba on the sanctions list. They have lived in relative peace. I think it was John Kennedy that put sanctions on them. After the Cuban missile crisis. Hell, they have health care for their people, that is better then the U.S. They seem to be getting enough to eat. I do not know what life is like in Cuba. All I hear is my governments version of it.

Answer 7

By showing competency at the top job.
Poor education ?? I don't think so. I think when international help is needed , Cuba is famous in sending doctors and medical team.
I do not know about corruption levels in south america. I think corruption is there all over the world.

Answer 8

Well let's see... What is life like in Cuba... This is reality folks...

http://nene.essortment.com/lifeincuba_rmuy.htm

Joe Fuentes of Miami spends about $8 every day on his morning coffee and fast food lunch. Just 150 kilometers south, Lazaro Solano receives $8, his monthly salary for his full-time job as a shopkeeper in Havana, Cuba.

A meal at a McDonald’s-like joint in Cuba costs about $3, so how does Lazaro feed his family? How can he possibly buy gas for his car?

As for food, most Cubans can’t afford to shop with dollars, unless they have relatives in Miami who send them money or they work as taxi drivers (one of the only ways to be self-employed in Cuba). Everyone else must shop with pesos at the government-run stores (peso stores), even though the stores offer very little variety and are sometimes actually completely empty. Today, it’s difficult to find ingredients for traditional Cuban cuisine (pork, fish, garlic, cooking oil) because food production is in shambles and they can’t afford to import.

Cubans get a monthly ration of food. In 1997, the monthly ration for one Cuban looked like this: five pounds of rice, three pounds of beans, five eggs, one chicken, half a pound of coffee, milk for children up to age seven, three packs of cigarettes, and two rolls of toilet paper. Along with the annoyance of not getting any fresh fruits or vegetables in their rations, Cubans spend a good portion of each day standing in line for their food.

As for buying gas for his car, Lazaro doesn’t have to worry about that. He, like nearly everyone in Cuba, can’t afford a car. And if he could, he probably wouldn’t be able to find one to buy. The majority of cars owned by Cubans are dilapidated American cars originally built in the 1950s.


Russian Ladas from the 1970s and early 1980s can also be seen around Cuba. The Ladas were given as rewards to model workers or party militants before the end of the Cold War. The Ladas, which comprise half of all the cars in Cuba, can’t be sold because they were given to government workers. They weren’t given as gifts, but they were offered to them at low monthly payments. If a father wants to give his son his Lada when he dies, he cannot. Ownership reverts back to the state.

There is, there always has been in the last decades, a desire of the authorities to offer adequate public health services to the population. A health service network covers the island, which has one physician for every 400 persons. Havana and other major cities have suffered periodic outbreaks of scabies and lice. Several diseases, such as tuberculosis and dengue, have been reborn, and several epidemics have produced victims among the general population. To enter a hospital is torture. You have to bring your own towels and sheets, soap and food, and then call somebody abroad so that they can send medicine. Physicians are good, but paramedical service is a disaster. They get paid very little. There is a general lack of cleanliness and poor attention. The special clinic for foreigners and government officials is a different story.

Third World capitalism, which has been imported to the Island, advances. And the conquests of real socialism have dissolved in the inefficiency of the system. Meager production, an agriculture incapable of working, and the government's refusal to allow the people to take off the yoke of the state, have not allowed the start of a process of individual sovereignty.

Answer 9

maybe by showing that not all dictatorships are corrupt and he does care for the citizens of Cuba but then again only hear what he wants me to hear

Answer 10

COMMUMISM... would appear to work. As for not being corrupt get real... communism doesn't allow freedom of movement or speech no one really knows what's going on.