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Life in Cuba 1963 contrasts with harder times ahead
A 1968 Associated Press study notes Cuba's paradox: free education and medical care, low taxes, yet rising food costs and shortages. Many goods are rationed or unavailable while the state pushes costly irrigation, dams, and industrial projects. Castro calls for harder work and a shift to a new socialist man to achieve a sugar target of 10 million tons by 1970.
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Fentor Wheeler
Associated Press
Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Castro
Cuba Socialista
Wee Nana Pee Owen
Communist Party
Pro
Central Labor Union
CTC
North Vietnam
Russia