US Media Red Baits Sanders. Go Check Cuba For Yourself

Richard Mellor
FFWP Editor

Bernie Sanders is being savaged and given the old Red Scare because he said something positive about Cuba and Castro. He qualified his statements of course making it clear he was not a supporter of Castro but neither am I. I do not consider Cuba a socialist or communist country.

But when you look at these statistics and compare Cuba’s to India and the US, especially the life expectancy when compared to the US, one has to applaud it and ask how come this tiny little Island, blockaded and faced with a 60 year war of what can only be described as economic terrorism by the most powerful economic and military state that has ever existed, any intelligent person would have to look further. India, like the USA, has some of the richest people on the planet living within its borders.

Surely, the Red Scare, US capitalism’s propaganda machine attempting to equate Stalinism with socialism or communism and to foster the lie that genuine socialism is slavery while capitalism is freedom, will not work on the young people today.

By the way, these statistics come from the CIA World Factbook.  Go check countries that are US allies or proxies and compare them.

Cuba
Death rate

9.1 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 113

 Maternal mortality rate:.

36 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

country comparison to the world: 57

Infant Mortality Rate
total: 4.3 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 4.8 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 3.8 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 45

Life expectancy at birth: 

total population: 79.2 years

male: 76.8 years

female: 81.7 years (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 167

Physicians density:

8.19 physicians/1,000 population (2017)

Education expenditures:

12.8% of GDP (2010)

USA

Death rate:

8.3 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)

Maternal mortality rate:

19 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) 129 in world

Life expectancy at birth: 

total population: 80.3 years

male: 78 years

female: 82.5 years (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 45

Infant mortality rate:

total: 5.3 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 5.7 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 4.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world: 174

Physicians density:

2.59 physicians/1,000 population (2016)

Education expenditures: 

5% of GDP (2014)

country comparison to the world: 64

India
Death rate:

7.3 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)

Maternal mortality rate:

145 deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.)

country comparison to the world: 57

Life expectancy at birth

total population: 69.7 years

male: 68.4 years

female: 71.2 years (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world:

country comparison to the world: 167

Infant mortality rate:

total: 35.4 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 34.4 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 36.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.)

country comparison to the world:

country comparison to the world: 45

physicians density:

0.78 physicians/1,000 population (2017)

Education expenditures: 

3.8% of GDP (2013)