Original sentence: Initially popular amongst Cubans and still admired in more limited circles, his leadership has been marked by the implementation of programs that greatly increased the nation's literacy rate and provided universal healthcare to the Cuban populace, 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, as well as dramatic political and social repression
Edited sentence: Initially popular amongst Cubans and still admired in more limited circles, his leadership has been marked by the implementation of programs that moderately increased the nation's literacy rate and provided universal healthcare to the Cuban populace, 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, as well as dramatic political and social repression