10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 11 Sep \ on: HISTORY OF CUBA THROUGH A CUBAN DOCTOR BooksAndArticles
I read somewhere that Cuba's famous low infant mortality rate was actually due to the medical authorities not allowing/strongly discouraging infant deaths to be reported. Is that true? If so, it would kind of be like covid reporting in reverse (hospitals were paid $35,000 USD if they wrote up the cause of death as covid, instead of, for instance, a motorcycle accident, this actually happened A LOT).
What's a CUP? What's a CUC? What kind of business was your brother in? Sounds like some small business are allowed?
The infant mortality rate is simply the calculation of how many children died after 24 hours of being born and before the age of one, divided by the number of live births and multiplied by 1000. Whether it is manipulated or not...?
At that time, my brother had a business making plastic objects. In 4 hours of work I made around 200 pieces, and I charged 1 peso per piece. In 2 days I earned the same as a doctor in 1 month of work.
The CUC was the second currency here. Supposedly each CUC was backed by 1 American dollar. There were stores to buy in CUC, where everything you needed was available, and those in CUP, the main currency, which had a value 25 times less than the CUC. In that store there was nothing for CUP. In short, if you wanted something you had to divide your salary by 25 and buy it in the CUC store.
Private businesses have been accepted, but with so much control, supervision and regulation that it is almost impossible. One of the many regulations is that they regulate the sale price to the public, but the taxes they charge are high, the raw materials or machinery have to be imported and you do not have access to the dollar or the euro to pay for the import, so other strategies come into play.
I will talk about that in another post.
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