Cuban_And_Nicaraguan_Revolutions

Cuban And Nicaraguan Revolutions The Chilean, Nicaraguan, and Cuban revolutions were yet similar in ways but very much different in others. Younger men and women usually led these revolutions from the middle to upper class status that gave up their class rights to fight. “They wanted revolution-a sweeping change of economic, political, social and cultural structures-not just reform.”(Burns-Charlip 255) Cuba’s revolution was not caused by economic deprivation or because of the already strong growing economy; it was the political factors and the limited distribution of benefits from the economy that evoked the civilians to revolt. The Cuban economy was moving forward at the time before the rebellion but the dominant influence of the sugar industry made the economy "asymmetrical" and encouraged no "dynamic industrial sector". Because of the dependence on sugar, the unemployment rate ranged between 16 and 20% rising and falling with sugar prices, ebbing and flowing as the season changed. The rural wage levels were incredibly unsteady and unpredictable; the standard of living was low. Dependence on the sugar industry did not retard the economy of Cuba, just the wages of its workers. It was the leaders of the nation who reaped profit from this dependence, and it was the leaders of cuba, nicaragua, america, elections, states, contras, united, sandinistas, government, election, economy, castro, revolution, democracy, class, because, sugar, status, political, people, nation, man, fsln, different, countries, communism, world, terrorism, struggle, rightwing, programs, poor, others, nations, international