Original sentence: Initially and still popular among many Cubans, his leadership has been marked by programs that dramatically increased the nation's literacy rate and provided quality health care to many Cubans, tensions with the United States that peaked in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, a close partnership with the Soviet Union, and protests both domestically and internationally against his political control over the country
Edited sentence: Initially and still popular among many Cubans, his leadership has been marked by programs that dramatically increased the nation's literacy rate and provided quality health care to many Cubans, as well as unprecedented political opression which has repeatedly spurred tensions with the United States that peaked in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, a close partnership with the Soviet Union, and protests both domestically (though carefully muted and dispersed) and internationally against his political control over the country