Talk:Economy of Cuba

message: The section about before the revolution looks really good so far. Paragraph four is a little choppy, so that could be smoothed out. 
For the "citation needed," this source may be worth looking at. http://latinamericanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-4
Cuban sugar quota
Looks good to me
Zafra
You may want to block the Castro quote, though I'm not certain of what the rules for that are
Overall, the work you've done looks good! Jgriffith19 (talk) 15:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peer Review Comments 

message: 5 percent under poverty line gives no citation and google suggests that this information is not actually available. 
Elliot9000 (talk) 06:17, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  5 percent under poverty  

message: "A Canadian Medical Association Journal paper claimed that "The famine in Cuba during the Special Period was caused by political and economic factors similar to the ones that caused a famine in North Korea in the mid-1990s,..." when reading the source, I saw that it was an anonymous article posted on a bulletin. Are there reliable resources that state the same conclusion? RenaatPeeters (talk) 17:46, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The complete second paragraph under Special Period is strange:  "mortality rates were not strongly affected" ?? I have never read a source that states that there has been one fatality due to famine. The source cited doesn't exist. RenaatPeeters (talk) 18:07, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been studying on the subject quite a while now and I haven't encountered any source that speaks about deaths due to the food shortages. Many are the sources that say that due to a different diet the Cubans' health improved dramatically during the years of austerity. Deaths from cardiovascular disease and adult-onset type 2 diabetes fell by a third and a half, respectively. Strokes declined more modestly, and overall mortality rates went down. Referring to the North Korean famine creates a false image.  RenaatPeeters (talk) 11:27, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and it creates an undue weight issue with this article. I deleted it. JArthur1984 (talk) 12:37, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Period: comparison with North Korean famine 

message: From "Economic Freedom": Cuba ranked 31st among the 32 countries in South and Central America, with the Heritage Foundation rating Venezuela as a "client state" of Cuba's and one of the least free.
Previous sections seem to imply the reverse, that Cuba is economically dependent on Venezuela; for example, As of 2012, Venezuela accounted for 20.8% of Cuba's GDP while Cuba only accounted for roughly 4% of Venezuela's.  While the citation given for the Heritage Foundation does not state this claim, I found a document from them that did say this.  It seems like this was added in July of 2021, after updating a section sourcing from 2014, while also removing context about the Heritage Foundation's ideological bias.
Should the part about Venezuela being a client state of Cuba be removed, while keeping the rest of the sentence?  And should it be framed in the context of the Heritage Foundation's biases? 128.163.248.203 (talk) 18:14, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi IP, in case you're still around, thanks for pointing this out. I have at least trimmed the "client state" clause. JArthur1984 (talk) 12:31, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venezuela as "Client State" of Cuba