Cuba

Population

Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Long-livers

Mortality

Drug deaths

The number of deaths in road accidents

Parliament: National Assembly of People's Power

2023: Women's share of Parliament - 55.7%

Education

Literacy rate

Economy

Main article: Economy of Cuba

Cellular communication

• Cellular (Cuban market)

Health care

2021: Maternity leave

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2020

Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave 6 months or more

Medical services - Cuba's main export item

Almost the main asset of Cuba is highly effective, in medicine a number of parameters not inferior to the North American, and the main export item of a country deprived of natural resources is its doctors working in "hot spots" around the world - from, and Brazil Indonesia Kiribati to those affected by the new coronavirus and. COVID-19 Italy Andorra

Cuba is capitalizing its ties again - in Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, South Africa and Togo, Cuban epidemiological services have been deployed, which have been praised by the UN and WHO.

"Medical diplomacy" - dating back to the 1960s. The doctrine of the Island of Freedom, when Cuba used "medical internationalism," including to achieve its long-term military-political goals.

It was Cuba that dragged the USSR into the protracted civil conflict in Angola, during which the Cuban units inflicted a decisive defeat on the South African troops and their Angolan allies. And in the main success stories of Cuba - Angola and Guinea-Bissau - Cuban doctors, who acted hand in hand with the military, actually created health systems from scratch, to this day supported by various bilateral programs.

Including thanks to medical diplomacy, Cuba remained afloat in the crisis for the socialist bloc of the 1990s. and learned to effectively resist sanctions policy USA - thanks to agreements with (Venezuela "oil for doctors") and. Bolivia South Africa also came to her rescue - with the fall of the apartheid regime and the outflow of qualified white specialists, Cuban doctors successfully occupied their niche.

Times, however, have changed a lot. With the restoration of private property and the rejection of the construction of communism, "medical diplomacy" remains and even expands - but now as a purely pragmatic doctrine. Cuba has acted in Africa as pragmatically as possible before - for example, in exchange for mineral resources and raw materials, the island supplied doctors and military specialists with the openly terrorist regime of Francisco Macias Nguema in Equatorial Guinea. Nowadays, neither doctors nor the government sending them overseas ever work for "thank you." For the Cuban authorities, "export doctors" - the main source of foreign currency, bringing the budget over $6 billion per year - are twice as much as tourists.

For almost 50 thousand doctors working outside Cuba, long overseas business trips are invaluable experience and well-paid work, compensating for rather low salaries and low, albeit acceptable standards of life in Cuba itself. As noted by the telegram channel Zangaro Today, in the same Angola, Cuban doctors who have never received less than $4 thousand are considered a "white bone," enter the high society and, of course, are not in a particularly hurry to return home.

In May 2020, in Angola, according to the local press, a strike of doctors is brewing - the reason was the information that 250 Cuban doctors deployed in the country to contain the coronavirus epidemic receive ten times more local doctors. With an average salary of 270-290 thousand kwanzas for an Angolan doctor, their Cuban colleagues receive 2.9 million kwanzas, or about $5 thousand.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of Cuban medical diplomacy, including in Africa, has increased unusually.

2015: Leading role in Ebola suppression in West Africa

In 2011, Cuban epidemiologists played a leading role in the suppression of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, and in 2014-2015 - Ebola outbreaks in West Africa.

Crime

Prisons

2019: Minimum age of imprisonment for children - 7 years

2018: Number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens

History

2021

Biggest protests in 30 years

In July 2021, Cuba hosted the largest protests in almost 30 years. Cubans protested against the economic policies of the authorities, neglect of the needs of people and the pace of vaccination against COVID-19.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who also leads the Communist Party, accused the US of inciting unrest: "Those who inflate these demonstrations do not want the welfare of the people, but the privatization of health care and education, as well as neoliberalism."

The United States has added Cuba to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism

In January 2021, the United States added Cuba to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.

2020: Economic downturn due to tourism crisis amid COVID-19 pandemic

Cuba has faced challenges after its economy suffered from declining tourism revenues following the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, the government introduced extraordinary economic reforms in response to the downturn, including the abolition of some subsidies and price and salary adjustments.

1996

1990: Children of Chernobyl Programme

Fidel Castro meets the first Ukrainian children who arrived in Cuba under the program "Children of Chernobyl," 1990.

The program operated for 21 years.

The help of Cuban specialists was provided to ​​boleye 22 thousand sick children, including 457 oncohematologic patients. 4,512 patients were treated for severe chronic pathology in inpatient health facilities. During this period, 355 surgical operations were carried out in Cuba.

Cuba spent more than $350 million on the program, but in 2012 it was curtailed at the initiative of Viktor Yanukovych, after a request from the Cuban side for joint participation in spending.

1976

1971

1967: Che Guevara shot in Bolivia

1964: Che Guevara speaks at the UN

1963: Fidel Castro's visit to the USSR

1961: Yuri Gagarin's Visit

1960

Che Guevara's visit to the USSR and China

Visit of Jean-Paul Sartre

1959: Cuban Revolution

1957

1956: Fidel Castro with squad arrives in Cuba

1950

1946: Hamingway in Cuba

2200 BC: Extinction of the last land sloths

Main article: Ground (giant) sloths

Some species of giant sloths (megaloknus) on the island of Cuba survived to the Holocene and became extinct about 2200 years BC^[1]a thousand years after the appearance of the first people on the island.

The ancestors of sloths living on the islands of the Caribbean penetrated here even in the Oligocene (33-23 million years ago) or at the very beginning of the Miocene. Pleistocene species were mostly massive terrestrial forms, however they retained signs of their ancestors' arboreal lifestyles - much like gorillas among monkeys, for example. Their hands and feet were twisted inward so that they walked with their fingers resting on the back. The structure of the pelvis and hind limbs indicates the ability to hold the semi-bipedal (bipedal, but supported by the front legs on trunks and branches) body position, which made it possible to eat up tall trees.

Cuban ground sloths survived their continental counterparts for several thousand years - megalonychid, megateriid and milodontid, extinct about 9-8 thousand years BC. The last sloth in Cuba was megaloknus, whose tooth from the location of Solapa de Siles in the province of Havana has a radiocarbon date of 4190±40 years ago. Thus, this species coexisted for at least a thousand years with people who appeared on the Greater Antilles Islands in about 3200 BC.

3200 BC: The first people in the Greater Antilles

The first people in the Greater Antilles appeared about 3200 BC^[1]

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is baseball

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