Culture of Expertise Project: Cuba

#1 Cuba is called El Caiman or El Cocodrilo (alligator), because of what looks like from an aerial view. #2 Grade school is mandatory for every child in Cuba between the ages of 6 and 15 and the uniforms are from different colors depending on each grade level. #3 Cuba is the most populated country in the Caribbean with more than 11 million residents. #4 Cubans pass their recipes down from generation to generation. #5 Dance is very important in Cuba, is the birthplace of classic dance styles like the Bolero, Mambo, Son, and Cha Cha. #6 Cuba is the highest literacy rate with 99.8% in the world. #7 The only cars that Cuban citizens can own legally are cars created and bought before 1959. References:  Oishimaya Sen Nag. (2018). The Culture Of Cuba. 2019, de Word atlas. Recuperado de: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-culture-of-cuba.html Brief history of Cuba. (2014, 24 marzo). Recuperado marzo, 2019, de https://cubaexplorer.com/brief-hist...

The Cuban revolution   It was a popular movement in January 1959. Before this revolution, Cuba was a place that lived influenced by the United States, the sugar and the hotels were dominated by North Americans. Cuba was an island with a lot of poorness and the people were angry because the rich people were becoming richer and the poor people poorer. In 1952, president Fulgencio Batista, a former sergeant that previously ruled the island, assumed power through a state cop supported by Americans, Batista installed a corrupt and violent regime of capitalist ideas with social inequalities where the benefices were for the richest. In 1956, Fidel Castro, a lawyer, with a group of 80 more, Ernesto Che Guevara, started to fight against Batista and the Cuban people started to support them because all the injustices of the Batista government, with the increase of people they started to conquer a lot of Cuban cities. References:  Luis, W. (2003).  Lunes de Revolu...

Education: Education in Cuba is free to all people until ninth grade, that means that there are some scholarships for the majority of the population. According to Granma Government statistics indicate that there is one teacher for every 37 inhabitants; Cuba has approximately one million technicians, technologists and university graduates in its labor force. Health: Health is a priority on Cuba, this makes the health system something free and accessible for all the population. The have specializations about interventions like organs transplant, maternity, and geriatrics. According to Granma, The country has a total of 82,000 medical doctors or one per 137 inhabitants. References:  Brief history of Cuba. (2014, 24 marzo). Recuperado marzo, 2019, de https://cubaexplorer.com/brief-history-of-cuba/

Political configuration: The political configuration of the Republic of Cuba consists on a socialist state with a President of the Republic, Prime Minister, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Commander in Chief of the armed forces. This system, created after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 establishes the defense of popular democracy and has allowed the country to become a truly socialist state. Its government is divided into 3 branches: 1.- The National Assembly of Popular Power, which is the supreme organ of the government and controls the constitutive and legislative power. 2.- The Assembly Members, who only justify their actions to their constituents and the local Popular Assembly. 3.- The Cabinet, formed by the President and first Vice-president of the Council of State, other vice-presidents, secretary, ministers and presidents of ministerial institutions. Other 3 important entities are: the Supreme Popular Court, which acts as Judicial Power, the Gener...

Economy: it is based on the agricultural activity, the tourism, the mining, and the industry; Its main exports are sugar, coffee, tobacco, pharmaceutical products and professionals specialized in medicine, computer science, agricultural sciences, and biotechnology. Ethnicity: White people in Cuba can be traced by their ancestry to massive migrations from Spain in the 18th Century to Cuba, where nowadays they mainly constitute the upper-class in the racially divided country. Black people, on the other hand, can be traced back to the sub-Saharan region. Most of them are settled on the eastern parts of the island, and Havana has the highest number of black population. Nowadays, black migrant waves from Angola, Jamaica, and Haiti are still reported. References: Cuba Agricultural Trade Issues. (2017, 10 enero). Recuperado marzo, 2019, de https://farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2017/01/cuba-agricultural-trade-issues/ Benson, D. S. (2016). Antiracism in Cuba : The Unfi...