Cuba: Photos Not Seen Since 1958
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Rare unseen images from one of the world's leading archive of Cuban photos and ephemera. Take a glimpse into a forgotten past, with photos not seen since 1958. The elegance of Havana society, the vibrant Cuban middle class and the hidden past al come to life in this rare collection of pre-Castro photographs.
Ignorance (usually willful) of conditions in pre-Castro Cuba, of Fidel Castro's background, of U.S.-Cuba relations pre-1960 all contribute to the cliché-ridden Castro legend. With the media wallowing in a Castro-cliché orgy over these hideous past decades let's examine the truth about pre-Castro Cuba with IMAGES which do speak a thousand words!
In 1958, only 7 percent of invested capital in Cuba was American, and less than one-third of Cuba's sugar output (its main crop) was by U.S. companies. Cuba had a grand total of six gambling Casino's at the time. (Gulfport/Biloxi Mississippi has double that number today.) Cuba's Gross Domestic product in 1957 was $2.7 billion. Cuba's foreign receipts in 1957 were about $750 million--of which tourism made up only $60 million. Gambling was a small fraction of this $60 million. Exactly two Havana hotels were mob-owned (compare this to Las Vegas history.)
In 1958, Cuba had approximately 10,000 prostitutes. Today an estimated 150,000 ply their trade on the desperate island, many as young as 14.
And to cap it all off: in 1950 more Cubans (out of a population of six million) vacationed in the U.S., than Americans (out of 200 million) vacationed in Cuba. At that time, Cubans didn't come to the U.S. in any great numbers to settle. In fact as a percentage of population, Cuba took in more immigrants (primarily from Europe) in the early 20th century than did the U.S. In the 1950's, when Cubans were perfectly free to emigrate with all their property and U.S. visas were issued to them for the asking, fewer Cubans lived in the U.S. than Americans lived in Cuba.
A report from the Geneva-based International Labor Organization that documented the following in 1957: "One feature of the Cuban social structure is a large middle class," it starts. "Cuban workers are more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6 per cent of gross national income. In the U.S. the figure is 70 per cent, in Switzerland 64 per cent. 44 per cent of Cubans are covered by Social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S."
An infant mortality rate that plummeted from 13th lowest in the world in 1958 (lower than in Germany, France, Japan, Israel among many other first world nations) during the unspeakable Batista era to 40th today, that finds most of the nations behind it in 1958 now ahead of it -- this rate qualifies as an "achievement" in the lexicon of news agencies that have earned a Havana bureau.
In the 1950's this writer's parents paid $3.50 a month to a private-sector HMO for full health care coverage for their entire family.
For Cuba's indigent (or those who preferred buying a couple bottles of Rum or lottery tickets with their $3.50) the unspeakable Batista regime maintained the Calixto García, Reina Mercedes, Emergencias, Hospital de Maternidad, and El Infantil hospitals -- all providing what socialists term free health care, in the manner of New Orleans Charity Hospital.
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My soul is crying... a thousand tears for the Cuba I was born in, but never knew as an adult.
Same with me. Born in Havana,Cuba and was only 2 months old when we emigrated from Cuba to America legally in NYC. If there was no General Batista there would have been no Fidel Castro and Miami today was what Havana would have looked like if there was no Communism.
@@luislaplume8261 Pre-Castro Cuba was a US sugar colony where slavery was legal, child prostitution was rampant, the American mafia run the streets and the whole island was stuck in the 1800s.
Nací en Cuba en La Habana en el 63 mis padres me sacaron en el 64 vivo en el exilio me sacaron de Cuba pero Cuba nunca la deje ella vive en mi ese amor pación por mi Cuba me nació no pasa un día que no dejo de ver reportajes documentales películas de la República oro rezo lloro por mi país su música del antaño es para soñar soy dibujante todo lo que pinto es representando a mi amada Cuba y a mi Virgen del Cobre en papel lienzo cristal madera estos documentales me hacen soñar y adorar y respetar a mi Patria DIOS PATRIA Y LIBERTAD PARA CUBA SU PUEBLO Y LOS PRESOSO Y PRESAS POLÍTICOS Y POLITICAS Cuba te amo hasta el último día de mi existencia en esta tierra solo le Pido a Dios que me la Esperanza y Fe de poder ver mi Patria Libre de Nuevo❤😢😊😢❤
ASI ERA LA CUBA QUE YO CONOCI, MIREN LA DIFERENCIA DE LA ROPA DE LA GENTE Y AHORA CON TIRAJOS Y MAL COMIDOS MIREN LAS CALLES COMO SE VEN LLENAS DE CARROS Y LA EXPRESION DE LA GENTE FELICES NO COMO AHORA.HECTOR MATA SOL
This wistful and homesick music describes a past achingly gone better than any commentary or analysis. Have all involved learned anything ?
peter melian that's a very good question I don't know but I've tried as much as I can to help
Felicidades! Excelente montaje ejecutado con exquisito gusto. Buen movimiento de imágenes acompañadas con balsámica música. Gracias por exponer parte de lo que fué nuestra Cuba en un pasado. Que quede bien expuesto que aunque existían flaquezas (al igual que cualquier otro lugar), no eramos un pais del "tercer mundo"...
Cuba: prosperous, modern & beautiful. Now just another 3rd world country. Heartbreaking.
+Alicia Noda that's the word that comes to my mind when I see these pictures - just heartbreaking
wally a I saw a movie filmed there in 1948 & Cuba was beautiful & clean.
Hi Alicia - I guess one hope is that the Castros can't live forever - maybe then real change will come but it will still be a third world country trying to advance - probably never what it used to be- such a shame .
salud
Worse than a 3rd world country. How many Haitians do you see seeking refuge in Cuba. Unfortunately you can't say the same about the opposite scenario.
Ms. Sonshine. Just like the USA today.
Esa fue la Cuba qué yo conocí y han acabado con ella 🥲
Great pictures!
que diferente la Cuba de mis padres y abuelos a la mía y de mis hijos, que aprendan los venezolanos y otros lo que resulta de permitir que se deteriore la democracia
The left's motto.....Yesterday Cuba, today Venezuela, tomorrow America and Canada! Let's abolish the U.S. Constitution and the Bil of Rights. And Canadian national laws. Trudeau would appreciate that!
No es por nada pero se me salieron las lágrimas cuando ví esté vídeo como estaban los cubanos adelantados en esos tiempos muy pronto entré todos los lograrán dentro de poco amanecerá la democracia en ese linda nación 💪🙌❤❤
These images of our country's golden age are quite the regal spectacle of what Cuba was and furthermore drives home the savage reality of the epic destruction of a once thriving republic. I was born in this beautiful, engaging city back in the summer of June of 1969 and all of these things were told to me by my parents which they talked about a completely foreign world to what has rotten and the collapse of such an elegant, enchanting place. Cuba's utter destruction has no way of being absolve the criminals of their doing, the cancerous communism regime of the Castro family has nor it can ever, ever be or could be pardon for the monumental destruction of an all around good country, it wasn't perfect nothing never is but the Republic of Cuba was so advanced and far more established in that time than most of Latin America and this is a fact, all you have to see are the images from this video to see how thriving, advanced and refined was our beautiful Cuba. My deepest melancholy feelings take me to a place of wonder and to invoke thoughts of where? and how would our Cuba be at this present time if Fidel Castro never happens? Cuba in my humble and perhaps over estimating it Cuba would probably be the Monaco of the Americas, the reason I arrive at this way of thinking its because around the early 50's you could see the prosperous ability or the foundation of what it could've been something really grand and extraordinary and it really was starting to take shape and the more I think and reflect on this idea the more and more my heart aches and cries in a somber note of complete hopeless and asking why was destiny so invasive towards the Cuban people to have send us such a bad hand at the poker table of life, Cuba was the shining pearl of the Caribbean, I don't say this just because I'm a citizen of the republic but the crimes committed on us Cubans by stealing it away from us its one of the biggest crimes on humanity itself, not only Cubans lost a great place to live and prosper but I like to think that the whole world lost tremendously by not having access to this beautiful and amorous place. VIVA CUBA LIBRE!!!! FREEDOM FOR A FREE CUBA!!!! Lester H. 🇨🇺❤🇨🇺❤🇨🇺❤🇨🇺❤🇨🇺❤🇨🇺
I would agree with your point. Cuba would have become the Monaco of today with free enterprise, capitalism, legalization of cryptocurrencies and platinum, gold, silver coins and bullion. The Cuban dollar had the same value as the American dollar and if you cashed your paycheck or recieved American and Cuban coins and currency you still had been fully paid. My parents and grandparents used both national currencies and that is why they had no trouble counting American money when they emigrated to America.
All gone
Ironbeer, Materba, Salutaris , Cawy, and on, and on ...
Vibrant culture before the bearded devils betrayed Cubans.
PLEASE, slow down with the sequence. We cannot enjoy it a search for familiar faces. Thank you.
Cómo se llama la canción se ve muy hermosa la verdad con todo las imágenes
3:09 posiblemente algunos de esos candidatos que aparecen en las fotos pudieron haber sido los presidentes de cuba pero llego un tipo y cambio todo y ellos quedaron en el olvido y desconocido asi pudo pasar con algunos presidentes de america latina si el comunismo hubiera llegado al poder mucho antes
Bellas fotos!
1:37 ese no es batista con su esposa acaso
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