Original sentence: Initially and still to some degree popular among some Cubans, his leadership has been marked by programs that 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
Edited sentence: Initially and still to some degree popular among some Cubans, his leadership has been marked by programs that 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