Identity:
Culture is Resistance
| Cuba’s currency
Cuban peso (CUP) = 100 centavos and Cuban Convertible Peso 24 CUP
| Cuba’s economy
$72.3 billion (2014 est.)[1] $121 billion (2014 est.)[2] (PPP)
| GDP ranks; 66th (nominal) /
66th (PPP) GD P growth 2.7% (2011 est.)[3]
| GDP per capita
(2010 est.)[2] (PPP)
$10,200
| GDP by sector
Agriculture: 4.3%, industry: 21.6%, services: 74% (2009 est.)[2]
| Inflation (CPI)
1.5% (2009 est.)[2]
CUBA’S ECONOMY
CUBA’S ECONOMY | Population below poverty line
1.5% (2006)
| Labor force
5.159 million (Public sector: 78%, Personal sector: 22%) (2009 est.)[2]
| Labor force by occupation
Agriculture: 20%, industry: 19.4%, services: 60.6% (2005)[2]
| Unemployment
3.8% (2012 est.)[4]
| Main industries Sugar, petroleum, tobacco,
construction, nickel, steel, cement, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals. Exports; $2.458 billion f.o.b. (2009 est.)[2]
| Export goods
sugar, medical products, nickel, tobacco, shellfish, citrus, coffee[2]
CUBA’S ECONOMY Main export partners; Canada 17.3%, China 16.6%,Venezuela 78% of Cuba’s economy is conrol by the government . Cubans receive free education, healthcare and housing making it one of the fith most healthiest nations in Latin America. Cuba also has the highest rates in college graduates among Latin America. 12.7%,Netherlands 8.8%, Spain 5.8% (2012 est.)[5] Imports$8.963 billion f.o.b. (2009 est.)[2] Import goods petroleum, food, machinery and equipment, chemicals[2] Main import partners; Venezuela 36.4%, China 10.5%, Spain 8.7%, Brazil 5.1% United States 4.2% (2012 est.)[6]. Public finances-Public debt $19.44 billion (31 December 2009 est.);[2] another $20.8 billion owed to Russia, $0.9 billion owed to Romania and $0.2 billion owed to Hungary. Revenues $35.01 billion (2007) Expenses $36.73 billion est. (2015)
| 78% of Cuba’s economy is
conrol by the government .
| Cubans receive free
education, healthcare and housing making it one of the fith most healthiest nations in Latin America. Cuba also has the highest rates in college graduates among Latin America.
Cuba’s Education All education levels run by state since 1961. 100% subsidized by the government, Free College! Highest education level in all of Latin America and Caribbean. Over 47 universities in Cuba The structure of the universities is much like that of American universities, Bachelors, Masters, and then Doctoral. Communism is a prominent subject in schools, in favor of, of course. The government uses 13% of its annual budget to go to the funding and operations of schools. Cuba has the highest literacy rate of any other country in the world, nearly 100 Â
Santeria Also know as Regla de Ocha is usually defined as an AfroCuban religion; however Santeria’s origins are found in what is now known as Nigeria and Benin in West Africa. Regala de Ocha came to be known as Santeria when slaves brought to the New World were force to convert into Catholicism. The slave trade brought many Africans to Cuba, Brazil, Haiti, the southern USA, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and other Caribbean nations. Â
Many of the converted slaves kept their native religion and named it Santeria, which can be translated it as devotion of the saints. The Afro-Cuban found a way to synchronize Catholicism and Santeria. Many Afrom-Cubans baptized their children and attended church on Sunday, while practicing the rituals of Santeria at home.
Such synchronization of the two religions can be seen in the pilgrimage of San Lazaro. It is one of the largest religious events in Cuba. Every December 17, people come from all over the country to pray for good health or to be healed. Many of them go to great lengths to show their dedication.
Santeria is an oral tradition, there are not that many text that tell the details of the religion; instead the religion is pass from generation to generation by the narration of sacred stories by priests and priestesses of the religion.