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The 1959-present history section has some outdated information concerning Raul. At the bottom it talks about how Raul hopes to introduce term limits and what not as President, however he is no longer President. It would also help to include some information regarding Miguel Diaz-Canel, the new President. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.200.67.122 ( talk) 22:37, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I think that Category:Totalitarian states should be removed from this article. While Cuba was arguably totalitarian under Fidel Castro, his death has now downgraded the Cuban regime from totalitarian to authoritarian. As such, Cuba is not presently a totalitarian state and therefore should not included in this category. ( The Professor (Time Lord) ( talk) 17:48, 12 May 2018 (UTC))
Is this based on a regional variation or is it just a mistake? Kankyaku ( talk) 13:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
This paragraph should be removed, because it is missing a lot of sources and informations. About the history of Cuba it is fully explained in the top of the paragraph; and this something does not need to add any paragraph. Zozr789 ( talk) 17:28, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
For the section Republic (1902–59) / First years (1902–1925), it seems helpful to understand that tourists from the United States were able to openly purchase and consume alcohol in Cuba. Perhaps the sentence "During his administration, at the time of Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, tourism increased markedly and American-owned hotels and restaurants were built to accommodate the influx of tourists." Sonja Strom ( talk) 17:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Religious composition figures do not total 100% (and no, it's not "due to rounding"). 65% Christian figure is given and then 23% unaffiliated and 17% folk. This adds to 105%. The source that provides the 23% and 17% figures gives 59% Christian. Later, "less than half" the population was Catholic in 2006, whereas in the opening paragraph 60% were Catholic in 2016 (no source given for 2016 figures). Continuity here would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:105:B002:1101:A466:930E:F9C8:810D ( talk) 15:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
I think it's very possible that some people have more than one religious affiliation. The way many Caribbean peoples have mixed folk religion, and particularly African voodoo; and Catholicism is well known. Similarly, in Japan there has long been a complicated affair where most people identify as secular, but adhere to strongly to some Zen Buddhist, and Shinto (their folk religion) beliefs and customs.
There is a similar effect with ethnic group percentages, with people identifying with more than one enthicity common, which leads to more than 100%. I do this myself as I am of quite disparate interracial descent, and our government here in New Zealand encourages this. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) 19:18, 14 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thin Smek ( talk • contribs)
Illustrating my point, the Religion section actually has a paragraph that states:
"The religious landscape of Cuba is also strongly defined by syncretisms of various kinds. Christianity is often practiced in tandem with Santería, a mixture of Catholicism and mostly African faiths, which include a number of cults. La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (the Virgin of Cobre) is the Catholic patroness of Cuba, and a symbol of Cuban culture. In Santería, she has been syncretized with the goddess Oshun."
Remember also that you might be pitting an estimation against an actual identification. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) 10:30, 16 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thin Smek ( talk • contribs)
The country Infobox declares this:
Current constitution 24 February 1976
via this:
| established_event6 = Current constitution | established_date6 = 24 February 1976
However, the first paragraph of "Government and politics" section contains this:
The Constitution of 1976, which defined Cuba as a socialist republic, was replaced by the Constitution of 1992, which is "guided by the ideas of José Martí and the political and social ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin."[4]
Someone needs to go and check what constitution is current or otherwise explain the apparent contradiction. As I have no expertise in Cuban governance and politics, neither learnt Spanish, I should probably give it a pass. Thank you. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) ( talk) 11:25, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
The current constitution of Cuba, dates from april 10 of 2019, so my suggestion is to update that field
The official statement in Spanish http://www.parlamentocubano.gob.cu/index.php/proclamada-nueva-constitucion-de-la-republica-de-cuba/
The official news in English http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2019-04-10/the-new-constitution-and-enduring-values — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgazapo ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, this section needs to be updated. The information is from over 8 years ago. Right now Cuba has an exponential grow in its Internet connection. There are more than 1200 public WIFI hotspots in parks, streets and squares, more than 670 cybercafés, and since Dec 2018 3G mobile data network is available in most of the country and even 4G in some areas of Havana and touristic zones as Varadero Beach. Also, very recently became legal to have an Internet connection and private WIFI at home. In addition, the current information it's not totally accurated on the "goverment control" issue, it looks like Cubans can't post a status on Facebook without being censored by the goverment, which is not true at all. Just an example of the liberty on the Internet we have that very recently two demostrations against goverment policies on LGBT rights and animal protection were organized using social media platforms.
Here are some references (All of them in Spanish though): http://www.trabajadores.cu/20181218/cuba-por-la-4g-en-2019/
https://www.bnamericas.com/es/noticias/cuba-pretende-tener-4g-en-capitales-proviciales-este-ano
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-48261027
-- Yazle ( talk) 19:38, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I have added a summary of the cruel fate of the three indigenous peoples in Cuba. It was extracted from the wiki-articles on each people, namely Taíno, Guanahatabey and Ciboney. I have now added a singular ref to that summary as well to establish a better reffing, as it was brought up by a concerned editor.
While digging out singular refs, I discovered that cultural remains from the indigenous peoples has survived in Cuba and that genetically they are still present in Cuba's present population in a mix with African and European genes. An interesting subject. I haven't put up any info on that yet, though. But thought I would like to mention it. RhinoMind ( talk) 22:22, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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HDI section of the of the side box- change 73th to 73rd. 147.70.46.156 ( talk) 20:23, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.76.160.102 ( talk) 16:22, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Original information about Cuba and it's racial demographics.
I find that some of the information is false.
Cuba is not 64% White, because the very same people who claim to be white are actually mixed race who passed for white.
51% of the population is actually mixed race 37% of the population is white, and 11% of the population is actually black.
it's been this way for a very very long time and it suddenly there's been recent changes.
Some people over exaggerate or overstate but somebody is a liar. Robeyrobs ( talk) 17:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
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2012 Census of Cuba (latest): White 64.1 %, Mulatto or mixed 26.6 % and Black 9.3 %. The CIA accepts this data in its Cuba profile (cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html) on The World Factbook. The current racial distribution in this article is wrong (1998 data is wrong too) and obsolete. It should be changed. Bitholov ( talk) 17:56, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
The latest data about race of the population of Cuba is the 2012 Census of Cuba. This is the source of the current race data in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62Bitholov ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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I just want to edit a small thing in the Cuba article. The part that mentions mulattoes. It's written as " Cuba is 51% mulatto (mixed-race Spanish/African)" when in reality Mulattoes are mixed race of White and African not just Spanish. And Spaniards aren't the only White people that immigrated to Cuba. IceBrotherhood ( talk) 21:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
The population make up of my country as you have it now as of April 2020 is totally 100% misleading. To talk about Cuba's ethnic make up you have to take a long and hard look at all the historical development that started in 1511 when Diego Velasquez de Cuellar arrived in Cuba from Hispaniola and begun the colonization of my country. First of all the first slaves introduced into Cuba were white from Hispaniola later as the indigenous population of today's Dominican Republic continued to decline and was necessary to import large amounts of Africans then Spanish authorities in Cuba decided to import some black slaves in order not to repeat the same atrocities that took place in Hispaniola with the indigenous population there. In Cuba however due to warfare an important part of the male population died and also many took part in the conquest of Mexico, Florida and Central America there were even Cuban Indians in Guatemala. From that day on the mixing has been between mainly white males but also black men to a lesser degree with indigenous women all through the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century even the 20th century. But from the 17th century on important white enclaves of white families particularly from Spain but also other Europeans particularly Germans continued to come and enrich the racial fabric of my beloved country. So mestizos (Spanish but also other Europeans)with Amerindian women has been the norm with zambos (indian/black) pardos (white,black,indian) and yes later mulatos (blak/white) followed. I also want to remind you that an important population Amerindians exist and is growing more and more they make up 8% of Cuba's total population. The majority of Black Africans begun to arrive in Cuba in early 19th century with an important amount imported by the British in the 18th century to head start sugar cane production, this took place during the British invasion of Havana in the 17th century. Here you have the historical base to establish three main racial groups that have contributed to Cuba's racial make up. To this we have to add Chinese introduced mainly from the Philipines as indentured servants along with a large contingent on Maya Indians from the Yucatan which help strengthen Cuba's Amerindian heritage but white's continued to arrive in the 20th century but also in the 19th century. Putting all this together will help us arrive at a more accurate presentation of Cuba's racial make up. We Cubans particularly those living in Cuba are particularly mindful of all this talk about mulatos that conspire to still from us our Amerindian heritage which truly defines (Cubania} being Cuban.
We cannot compare Cuba with neither the Dominican Republic or even Puerto Rico (two different worlds) because the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were colonized first and a lot took place with their indigenous population that did not take place with ours in Cuba. Remember the whole idea that motivated Diego Velasquez to start colonization of Cuba was that he did not want to repeat what had taken place in Hispaniola. In 1550 Mr Angulo arrived in Cuba from Mexico he decided to end the enslavement of the American Indian and many Indian pueblos were established throughout Cuba which did not happen neither in the Dominican Republic or in Puerto Rico. With all this info I have not included the migration from Florida of Native Americans and whites particularly Spaniards running away from the changes that happened in that state as the Brits moved in to consolidate their presence in that part of the United States.
Cubans have this tendency to call Indians mulatos so when President Fulgencio Batista rose to power back in the twentieth century himself a Cuban Indian from Banes s town in eastern Cuba whcih at that time had a ethnia called Bani Indians. They are still there tough more assimilated. Some people particularly black Cubans prefer to treat him as one of is own an the tried to define him as a mulato, so begung the definition of anybody who did not look white as mulatos, and this particularly took place after the triumph of the Cuban revolution of 1959 when our Indian heritage took a back seat in order to give our black population the recognition that they deserved for having such an important role in the formation of our country because the dominant opinion was "it is better to be part Indian than part black" or having anything to do with black heritage.
The definition that you originally had there of Cuba being white 60% mestizo or was /and mulato 26.6% and black 9.3% was an acurate one even though you leave Amerindians who make up 8% of Cuba's population out but it is assumed that they are part in the mestizo component.
It is important that you reinstate that definition. I wonder who makes the decision to change that definition and on what historical account do the base their argument.
J L Molina — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:442:C380:A0F0:C58B:3EC:FDF9:59EA ( talk) 21:40, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
The ethnicity portion was changed from a 2012 study to a 1998 study. It is incorrect and should be change back to reflect the current, proper demographics. Chilee2k ( talk) 08:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
No one is going to do that, because a group of people are in the state of denial.
The way I see it, more than half the people who identify themselves as white in Cuba, or actually mulattoes which are the true majority.
Robeyrobss ( talk) 22:44, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Most of the people in Cuba are mulatto, I don't understand why people like you would classify themselves as white.
In the Dominican republic, almost three-quarters of the population are mixed race.
You won't find mulattoes in the Dominican republic classic find himself as white, so what gives Cuba the privilege to classify themselves as white? Robeyrobss ( talk) 23:14, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
You are not Cuban and you base your approach to Cuban ethnicity on the opinions of Cuba's diaspora in the United States. Nobody can expect to arrive at an accurate and serious study of the topic on less you go to the home country and see how Cubans view themselves vs the historical background and the genetic studies which has been put in place since 2002, helps to arrive at the current ethnic definition whch is mestizos/and mulattoes. This is a very accurate description of Cuba's ethnicity. J.L.Molina — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:442:C380:A0F0:35B4:402B:8637:7EA1 ( talk) 18:44, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Why someone Wikipedia keep changing the racial/ethnic composition of Cuba?
I'm being very serious about. I want to go on Wikipedia and research information about different countries because that's what I do that's what I love doing.
First states that Cuba is 65% White, then just two days ago someone changed it and stated that Cuba is 51% mulatto.
The last time I checked back in 2007 and 2008 Cuba was 51% mulatto and Cuba has been a mulatto Nation for a very very long time.
Suddenly in 2012 the white population rebounded and became the majority?
I'm not buying it for a long shot. Most people that I know who are from Cuba, states that most humans are mulatto, whites are second, then the blacks, then there's a small number of Chinese people.
Why is someone doing this? I believe that more than half the people who are mulatto, claim that they are white or have been at advance to White status, because mulatto see the cultural privileges that why Cubans have?
This information can be very misleading, and I don't like it one bit. Why is there always a discrepancy of Cuba's racial and ethnic composition serratus history?
Cuba has been mestizo (Spanish/European/Amerindian) mixture and then Black/Amerindian and White/Amerindian/Black mixture. Let me remind you that in Cuba and most Latin American nations mestizo and mulattoe mixture are intertwined to describe non-white Native Americans are regarded as people of color (non-black) but a very specialized type of mongoloid very multiphacetted therefore sometimes the confusion. the white population around the world is getting smaller and smaller, I don't believe for a second that the white population in Cuba is getting bigger and bigger.
hypodescent is the norm in Latin America, and I think that's what's going on. Robeyrobss ( talk) 21:49, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
--Ok, first, there may be multiply reasons for why someone might self-identify as different from ones genes, assumed ethnicity etc. Secondly, the source for the figure is the
CIA, so... it's possible the US government has an interest portraying things a certain way, so why don't you find better sources? Thirdly, it's not Wikipedia that keep changing the figures, but users like you and I. Fourthly, the source claims the figure is based on Cuban Census data from 2012 where people self-indemnified, some other countries which still uses old style censuses may have different practices where people might not at all be asked this question or asked it in a different way that would lead to a different outcome.
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As it was being explained recently in CUBAMAX television station which can be monitored through Dish cable during the 16,17,18,and 19 century the process of assimilation and missigenaion between Spanish/and other Europeans and Indians forming a mestizo population Spanish colonial authorities decided to categorize mestizos and even Indigenous as whites so in the 60% or 63% of White population count about 35% are of indigenous background. According to their opinions recently the population has demanded the that a reclassifying of the population take place in order to explain Cuba's ethnic composition more accurately. I want to appologize for a misquote of the British invasion that really took place in the 18th century around 1762 to be more exact previously I had mistakenly said that this invasion had taken place in the 17th century.
Btw, I actually looked up the figures you referenced and they seem to be based on the US State department figures/estimates. So the 'problem' I think is that we currently have different conflicting US government sources, if someone could find a better less self-conflicting and non-biased source (After all, see Cuba–United States relations for potential bias Cuba and US might have for each other based on their already rosy relations towards each other]] Kennet.mattfolk ( talk) 04:33, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia's verifiability policy states: "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." This policy is not being respected in recent edits to the article. Gatedais ( talk · contribs), this is a formal verifiability challenge concerning your recent edits, namely this run of nine edits and this run of sixteen, as well as recent previous edits of yours. Please add citations for all assertions of fact added in these edits. When I removed such material, your response was to revert ( here and here) contrary to policy, which states: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." You don't have the right to add unsupported content to the article, and you don't have the right to restore it when it has been removed by another editor for cause. I already explained this to you at your talk page, but you haven't responded, other than to remove the notices. Please now provide sourcing for all content you added recently, and explain why your removal of sourced content is an improvement to the article. Thank you. Mathglot ( talk) 18:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
A new editor at Wikipedia is adding unsourced content to the article, and removing sourced content and references. I've sent them a couple of messages at their Talk page about this and invited them to come here to talk out their desired changes, but instead, they just reverted, and pushed their content in again. This bears watching. Mathglot ( talk) 12:19, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
😂😂😂😂😂 You’re pathetic. Gatedais ( talk) 20:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
This article may have copyright violations from two or three sources:
Thanks to Asukite for finding the original one. Mathglot ( talk) 07:26, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
I have been removing edits by block-evading socks. After removing content by three older editors, more recent editor Gatedais was identified as a block-evading sock. Removing his edits piecemeal is impossible; there are too many. This requires a rollback to revision 961784453 of 11:35, June 10, 2020. Although Gatedais had by far the majority of edits during this period, this will also remove edits by the following users:
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Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
User:Doug Weller, can you look at the most recent edit history at Cuba? The rollback was removed within minutes by Ingrode ( talk · contribs) in rev. 976029537 of 9:57, August 31, 2020. Can you please revert their edit, and block Ingrode? The odds that they are not a block-evading sock of Gatedais/Krajoyn are close to zero. I think they might be getting increasingly desperate. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Just by way of explanation to anyone landing here and lacking the context of what's been going on at the article: this discussion section above notes problems with the edits by Gatedais ( talk · contribs) at this article. The reason Gatedais went blindly forward doing whatever they wanted with no concern about policy, guidelines, edit summaries, or anyone else's opinion, is that they are one of a very long list of sockpuppets of Krajoyn ( talk · contribs); they just keep doing whatever they want until they get blocked, and then they create another sockpuppet and keep right on going where they left off, sometimes editing the same article with multiple accounts at the same time. If you go back through the history of Cuba, Europe, and other articles, you will see a lot of sockpuppets who have been active there. Krajoyn and all of his sockpuppets, past, present, and future are indefinitely banned from editing at Wikipedia. If you see activity that you suspect is from someone abusively using multiple accounts (here, or anywhere), please file a report. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
What is going on here? There is no racial segregation based on skin colour in Cuba. And skin colour has never defined ethnicity. This is a US policy, and by no means a universal policy. So why enforce this on Cuba? It doesn't make any sense. I don't care how CIA views the world. It doesn't matter any bit in this regard.
If we are going to add ethnic groups, Cuba has real ethnic groups to add. Ethnic groups like the indigenous indians for example. [1] RhinoMind ( talk) 14:44, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
(better ping some of those involved: @ AnglicanNights:) RhinoMind ( talk) 14:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
It's the Cuban government that has divided its people along these racial lines and CIA has simply quoted their census figure. I do agree with the fact that ethnicity doesn't equate to race necessarily (at least in the Latin American sense). However, the figures do provide an important insight into the country's demography and aren't dubious. Regards
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RhinoMind, would you like to take another look at this? As noted in previous discussion sections above, there has been a lot of sockpuppet activity at this article, and as it happens, everyone you discussed with previously in this section is a blocked sock. If you think the ethnicity figures in the article are amiss, I'd suggest you take another look at the situation, and do whatever you think is right, within the confines of WP:V, WP:NPOV, and any other relevant guidelines, of course. Mathglot ( talk) 06:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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Under Castro, Cuba was involved in a broad range of military and (Change: humanitarian activity To: military activities) in Guinea-Bissau, Syria, Angola, Algeria, South Yemen, North Vietnam, Laos, Zaire, Iraq, Libya, Zanzibar, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo-Brazzaville, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.[19] Cuba sent more than 400,000 of its citizens to fight in Angola (1975–91) and defeated South Africa's armed forces in conventional warfare involving tanks, planes, and artillery.[20] Cuban intervention in Angola contributed to the downfall of the apartheid regime in South Africa.[21] Donarcher ( talk) 21:45, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Comment: If it is already mentioned in the existing sources, please point it out. Thank you. -ink&fables «talk» 09:39, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
I recently found this statement: "There is virtually no homelessness in Cuba, and 85% of Cubans own their homes and pay no property taxes or mortgage interest. Mortgage payments may not exceed 10% of a household's combined income." This does not have a citation, but when I searched online for this information, it came up on the site 'King Weekly Sentinel' under the header of 'Looking for the ultimate utopian society': http://kingsentinel.com/?p=10271
However, I have not managed to find anything on the verifiability of this claim, especially given how significant it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1tome2 ( talk • contribs) 14:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
A recent edit added content sourced to TheCubanHistory.com, and there's at least one other use of this website going back a ways. User:AdrianCubano, I don't doubt your good faith in adding the content in that edit, but I do have questions about the reliability of the website "TheCubanHistory.com". If you check the guideline on WP:RELIABILITY, you'll see that we should base the article on "reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." (see WP:REPUTABLE). I'm not sure that this website meets that threshold, as it appears to me to be a self-published website by a single author (Arnoldo Varona), who provides no citations, and publishes without editorial review. That doesn't mean it's necessarily inaccurate, but it may not be high on the reliability scale, as it's very difficult to verify anything on the website.
Accordingly, I've started a discussion about this website at the Reliable sources Noticeboard, to get some other opinions about it. You can find the discussion here. There's already some good feedback there, and there may be more. Based on that discussion, I would say that we should not add content to this article which is based solely on TheCubanHistory.com; we should try to source it to a more reliable source.
Just as a general reminder: blogs and other self-published sources are generally not considered reliable sources for the purpose of WP:Verifiability, so please evaluate for reliability all the sources you use for the article. Also, be aware of published sources from Cuba that may be subject to governmental control. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 22:51, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
The #History section is long, and we already have an entire article on Cuban history. I propose that we refactor the #History section down to around a quarter to a third of its current size.
This article is 216kb (raw) and 79kb of prose; of which the #History section is about 1/3 of the total (see "section sizes" in the Talk header). Given that we already have an article on the History of Cuba (190kb raw; 112kb of prose), perhaps we should refactor the #History section here, cutting it back to make it shorter, and making it more of a summary of History of Cuba per WP:Summary style, after making sure that any unique information in the section is moved to the article before any cuts take place.
Thoughts? Mathglot ( talk) 03:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
The Economy section has several sections that seem to just restate a government position on various policies. I’m not sure how to fix this but perhaps a direct quotation would be better so the opinion is at least attributed. Otherwise, perhaps biased language could just be removed. There are also quite a few grammatical mistakes that seem like they may stem from the same Author.
Here’s an example with the most obvious grammatical issues highlighted: 2019, on June, the government announce increase the wages in the public sector, specially for the teachers and health personnel. The increase was about 300%.[246] Also, in October, the government open stores to by, through electronic cards, house equipment and similar using USD, Euros or other international currency, send it to Cuba by the cuban emigration. The leaders of the government recognized that the new measures were unpopular but necessary to contain the capital flight to other countries as Panamá where cuban citizens traveled and imported items to resell on the island.
I’m not familiar with editing Wikipedia so I haven’t made any changes to the page but did want to flag it as an issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.156.164.121 ( talk) 01:27, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
1) The statement that the Cuban missile crisis almost led to WWIII needs a citation.
2) "Tourism was initially restricted to enclave resorts where tourists would be segregated from Cuban society, referred to as "enclave tourism" and "tourism apartheid".[257] Contact between foreign visitors and ordinary Cubans were de facto illegal between 1992 and 1997.[258] The rapid growth of tourism during the Special Period had widespread social and economic repercussions in Cuba, and led to speculation about the emergence of a two-tier economy.[259]" No. I guess this means that after the Revolution, tourism was initially restricted, but as it reads, it does not say that.
3) There is nothing about post-Obama restrictions.
4) There is nothing about the July 2021 demonstrations. 79.134.37.73 ( talk) 03:14, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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I found problematic content added in this diff. For starters, some references do not have a page number to back their respective statements, which makes it harder to verify the information. Nonetheless, I have tried my best to check where in those references their respective phrases are located. Soviet and Communist Studies is an extremely controversial and polarizing subject, where consensus is hard to find. The sources do back up the authoritarianism part, but I don't think those sources point to academic consensus. The second one, "Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability", for instance, argues in favor of a distinct definition of authoritarianism: "All the regimes encompassed by our definition are authoritarian, which should not be surprising". "Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War" attributes it to Larry Diamond. The third, "Democratization Theory and Nontransitions: Insights from Cuba" is not from a peer-reviewed journal. For instance, books like "Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution" (Oxford University Press), "We Are Cuba!" (Yale University Press), "Cuba: what everyone needs to know" (Oxford University Press), "Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana" (University Press of Florida); that is, University books about Cuba, do not label the country as "authoritarian"; and these things indicate, in my opinion, that it shouldn't be written in WP:WIKIVOICE. Furthermore, it's stated that "political opposition is not permitted". For this, I have not found proof in those three cited sources. In "Cuban Revelations", it's stated that the Communist Party *represses* it's opponents, and has a nuanced take on this, stating that these dissidents ("small, isolated groups of individuals within Cuba who challenge the government") are "caught in the middle of an undeclared war and the propaganda that goes with it"; that "the United States and its allies openly and covertly provide Cuban dissidents with funds and resources"; and when "dissidents are inevitably repressed, the unlucky individuals become the excuse to paint the island as a tropical gulag and justify external sanctions". Furthermore, it's stated that "most Cubans are seeking change through reform and evolution of the system", and that "most Cubans are dissidents, just not 'dissidents' as they are known abroad". (Part III, Human Rights). For the "There are elections in Cuba but they are not democratic"; I couldn't find evidence on the cited sources ( WP:OR ?), and this also goes against the books I cited earlier. "Authoritarian Regimes and Their Permitted Oppositions" even says that "Cuba’s electoral system permits different forms of regime opposition", which is a bit odd considering the earlier phrase states that "political opposition is not permitted". The source for "Censorship of information (including limits to internet access) is extensive" is reason.com (??) and a Human Rights Watch book from 1999, which, aside from its glaring age, is not an organization that can be cited without attribution. The Inter American Press Association is also cited without attribution at the lead in WP:WIKIVOICE. -- BunnyyHop ( talk) 05:36, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Bitcoin is not a currency of Cuba and should be removed. The Aljazeera article used as a source does not even mention the supposed September 7th date. The article also doesn't say Cuba will recognize bitcoin. The word bitcoin appears once in the article, referencing El Salvador using bitcoin, not Cuba. 75.164.82.226 ( talk) 17:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
It is mentioned that with ordenance task the wages were increased 4~9 times, but the truth is that everything ended up in an inflation without control, which was even worse with the economical problems associated to the coronavirus pandemic. As Cuba's average monthly salary rises to 4'000 pesos, packages of medications can have prices of thousands of pesos (if you find them, sometimes we have to travel to other provinces). The truth is that 1 USD ≠ 24 CUP, in fact, if you find someone willing to sell you dolars, prices can rise to 62 CUP, because the government ceased the receipt of dollars in the banks. You have no idea of the situation of the country, worthy of a book Frankernesto23 ( talk) 00:31, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
If you look at the casualty and losses section of the article on /info/en/?search=Battle_of_Cuito_Cuanavale , it is clear cut that Cuba with their allies, FAPLA and the Soviet Union lost the battle to South Africa and UNITA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.0.106.56 ( talk) 21:08, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Not particularly sure because this journal, describes the point of views of Department of Defense and State, in which both either describe the need to support Castro for hemispheric defense
or the fact that continued corruption with Batista's regime meant that revolutionary alternatives were soon viable. It also adds the Department of Defense continued several armed forces' missions in Cuba.
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In 2020, the official population of Cuba was 11,181,595 inhabitants. Source: Anuario Estadistico de Cuba 2020 (in Spanish).
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Please change "On January 1, 2021, the government launch the "Tarea Ordenamiento" (Ordenance Task) (previously announced on national TV transmission by the Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, with the presence of Gen. Raùl Castro Ruz, then the first secretary of the Cuba Communist Party), an effort thought by years, to finally end the use of the Cuban convertible peso (CUC) and only use the Cuban peso (CUP) in all the economy and to elevate the efficiency of the Cuban economy."
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"On January 1st, 2021, Cuba's dual currency system was formally ended and the convertible Cuban peso (CUC) was phased out, leaving the Cuban peso (CUP) as the sole currency unit of the country. Cuban citizens had until June to exchange their CUC. However, this devalued the Cuban peso and caused economic problems for people who had been previously paid in CUC, particularly workers in the tourism industry."
Sources: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article247776195.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/1/what-will-cubas-new-single-currency-mean-for-the-island
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7/16/cuba-protests-the-economic-woes-helping-drive-discontent 168.213.7.236 ( talk) 16:34, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
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Add source to claim about reliance on remittances
https://oncubanews.com/cuba/envio-de-remesas-a-cuba-cayo-el-5414-en-2020-segun-expertos/
Here it is stated as a drop from 6616 million dollars to 2967 million as a consequence of the covid pandemic. Would these numbers perhaps suffice as 6616 million dollars annually is around $600 per capita annually.
http://www.thehavanaconsultinggroup.com/en-US/Articles/Article/20?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
This source also points to remittances being a significant economic factor (and as well in relation to other latin american/ central american countries) Ormbunk ( talk) 14:27, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
The title speaks for itself, this is the biggest Caribbean nation keyword, nation Coopdeloop22 ( talk) 20:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Should Popular Councils and the town with the same name as the Popular Council be different wikipedia pages or the same? Because Vega Alta, Cuba is a Popular Council and a town and there’s a Popular Council section, should the section be a Wikipedia page or stay like that? CubanoBoi ( talk) 14:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
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For the intro, please mention that it is "an island country in the Caribbean. 2600:100C:A202:871A:4F6:FD13:9359:2A79 ( talk) 12:42, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
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In the "Capital" section of the infobox, can anyone remove the unnecessary word "City" from " Havana City"? 64.114.239.31 ( talk) 15:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
The gini score on the sidebar is from 2000, which is pretty old and not that useful. I think it would be better to have it removed or updated (if a source exists for it, though I haven't seen one). KlayLay ( talk) 17:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
From the history section of the article, it is claimed that "Back in power, and receiving financial, military, and logistical support from the United States government, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike." The source is an entire chapter, from pages 199 to 238, by Lillian Guerra in the book A Century of Revolution Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War. After reading the entire chapter (after first using control F to search for mentions of Batista and the United States), there is no mention on any of the pages of this chapter of the US supporting Batista for his return to power in 1940.
It's extremely propaganda-like to make citations to books and then cite broad ranges of text for a specific claim, knowing most people won't read the entire citation to check, particularly when the claim is in fact not supported by the source. Coreyman317 ( talk) 03:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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In this article it says that Cuba has one of the best infant mortality rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. That is a lie, dozens of children die every month in hospitals, or before being born, due to malnutrition, hunger, lack of medicines, lack of medical equipment and electricity. Lack of drinking water and hygiene in hospitals and health centers in general. The children who survive grow up hungry, without resources to go to school, or transportation. Developing other deseases because they have to live in marginality, and they grow up looking for sustenance to eat and help their parents in extreme poverty. Hence the prostitution, theft, and the illegal sale of basic necessities at exorbitant prices. Which leads them to the total corruption of a society corrupted in every way today. Going to school is not important, nor becoming a professional because you won’t earn enough to live on. So the children with values and principals in Cuba only dream of leaving the country one day to have a future for them and their families.
The following quote comes from the third paragraph of the article lead and has three citations:
"Censorship of information (including limits to Internet access) is extensive,"
There are three citations. The first article cites an entirely different article for this information published all the way back in 2003 from a far less prestigious journal called "Foreign Policy", which publishes articles with titles such as " The Evils of Self-Determination" and other articles that sound like conspiracy theory ramblings, like this one here.
The last two citations are also incredibly dated. One cites a piece of yellow journalism from a libertarian website, an article written in 2008. The other cites an article dated all the way from 1999 ! This source come from a time when all computers had glass screens and 10MB of RAM. They can't be used as reliable sources to learn about the internet in 2023.
I intend to remove these citations and this sentence from the header.
The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 01:08, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
I propose to separate article about Cuba (island) and Cuba (country), the same as with Malta and Malta (island). We already have article " Geography of Cuba" so the text from this article about this island could be used in order to create this new article. Prkp99 ( talk) 14:13, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Cuba is a Marxist-Leninist state, and it says so in both the 1976 and 2019 constitutions, so I suggest updating the source so the info box cites today's Cuban constitution. 2600:4041:552C:3200:2CE4:498F:CC24:2447 ( talk) 21:22, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
I want to explain to fellow editors why I just deleted some very controversial content. I've had a look at the first sentence of the "Human rights" section which reads like this.
"The Cuban government has been accused of numerous human rights abuses including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions (also known as "El Paredón")."
There are two sources for this paragraph.
The first source is a US State Department report from 2016. [1] The report doesn't make any mention of torture, executions, or "El Paredón". In fact the report doesn't mention any human rights abuses in Cuba. Even if it did, the United States government is not a reliable source of information on Cuba, considering both the USA's long record of hostilities towards Cuba coupled with their track record of dubious allegations against foreign governments they wish to topple ( Nurse Nayirah, Iraq WMDs, etc).
The second source is an Organization of American States report on Cuba published in 1967. [2] Regardless of how reliable this source may be, why are we using sources published from over half a century ago to comment on contemporary Cuba? Imagine if a wikipedia editor used articles on segregation written by Rosa Parks to describe America in 2023.
I am astounded at the poor quality of much of the content on the Cuba wiki page, especially on such sensitive topics as torture and censorship. The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 01:43, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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I cite these studies that question the statistics prepared by the Cuban government and taken as a reference in international metrics. [1] [2] [3] ComradeHektor ( talk) 22:02, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Delete the "Back in power, and receiving financial, military, and logistical support from the United States government..." where since the source [104] doesn't even mention the claim in the nearly 40 pages referenced. Coreyman317 ( talk) 23:40, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Wilfredor, what I was requesting here was that the statement to be sourced to several high-quality academic sources. It should also be put into context (embargo, etc.) and elaborated, as done in the Economy section. When several academic sources are in consensus about a statement, claims do not need to be attributed in-text — and such claims are then appropriate for due inclusion in the lead section. – Vipz ( talk) 14:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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Christopher Columbus didn't discover Cuba, people were already living there. He just landed there. 2600:6C4E:237F:5C08:5B9:DFB1:C8E7:C188 ( talk) 16:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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other languages-- Haitian Creolebr<< Englishbr<< Lucumí 2600:1700:3356:EC00:504A:B56:4202:8D24 ( talk) 00:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Many edits are confusing democracy with partisan or pluralist democracy. Single party democracies exist *prior* to our own ideological beliefs on what the correct form of democracy is. Democracy is not pluralism of *parties* (partisanship) but the pluralism of *participation* in the form of *voting*.
People vote in Cuba, have elections, and change policies at local, regional, and national levels. Recently, they even rewrote their constitution starting at the grassroots level. It is, regardless of ideology, a literal democracy. Nraisbeck ( talk) 22:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
It seems like at some point the hyperlink for the English Language in the Other Languages section got dropped somehow. If this is purposeful please educate me, I'm very new to editing. ErisAvernus ( talk) 21:00, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
North Hudson, NJ is not a real place. The term is not used informally either. It should be changed to Union City, NJ or Hudson County, NJ.
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Is there a reason we are citing CIA information as opposed to probably more reliable, and likely less biased, data like that of the UN for example? They do have a clear geopolitical interest, and a history of stretching facts to support that interest across the whole region. I'm not trying to say that the CIA is outright lying but more that the inherent biases in the people making the data may render it less accurate than the UN's data as an example. Hexifi ( talk) 03:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
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The 1959-present history section has some outdated information concerning Raul. At the bottom it talks about how Raul hopes to introduce term limits and what not as President, however he is no longer President. It would also help to include some information regarding Miguel Diaz-Canel, the new President. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.200.67.122 ( talk) 22:37, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
I think that Category:Totalitarian states should be removed from this article. While Cuba was arguably totalitarian under Fidel Castro, his death has now downgraded the Cuban regime from totalitarian to authoritarian. As such, Cuba is not presently a totalitarian state and therefore should not included in this category. ( The Professor (Time Lord) ( talk) 17:48, 12 May 2018 (UTC))
Is this based on a regional variation or is it just a mistake? Kankyaku ( talk) 13:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
This paragraph should be removed, because it is missing a lot of sources and informations. About the history of Cuba it is fully explained in the top of the paragraph; and this something does not need to add any paragraph. Zozr789 ( talk) 17:28, 12 October 2018 (UTC)
For the section Republic (1902–59) / First years (1902–1925), it seems helpful to understand that tourists from the United States were able to openly purchase and consume alcohol in Cuba. Perhaps the sentence "During his administration, at the time of Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, tourism increased markedly and American-owned hotels and restaurants were built to accommodate the influx of tourists." Sonja Strom ( talk) 17:26, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
Religious composition figures do not total 100% (and no, it's not "due to rounding"). 65% Christian figure is given and then 23% unaffiliated and 17% folk. This adds to 105%. The source that provides the 23% and 17% figures gives 59% Christian. Later, "less than half" the population was Catholic in 2006, whereas in the opening paragraph 60% were Catholic in 2016 (no source given for 2016 figures). Continuity here would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2620:105:B002:1101:A466:930E:F9C8:810D ( talk) 15:20, 22 June 2018 (UTC)
I think it's very possible that some people have more than one religious affiliation. The way many Caribbean peoples have mixed folk religion, and particularly African voodoo; and Catholicism is well known. Similarly, in Japan there has long been a complicated affair where most people identify as secular, but adhere to strongly to some Zen Buddhist, and Shinto (their folk religion) beliefs and customs.
There is a similar effect with ethnic group percentages, with people identifying with more than one enthicity common, which leads to more than 100%. I do this myself as I am of quite disparate interracial descent, and our government here in New Zealand encourages this. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) 19:18, 14 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thin Smek ( talk • contribs)
Illustrating my point, the Religion section actually has a paragraph that states:
"The religious landscape of Cuba is also strongly defined by syncretisms of various kinds. Christianity is often practiced in tandem with Santería, a mixture of Catholicism and mostly African faiths, which include a number of cults. La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre (the Virgin of Cobre) is the Catholic patroness of Cuba, and a symbol of Cuban culture. In Santería, she has been syncretized with the goddess Oshun."
Remember also that you might be pitting an estimation against an actual identification. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) 10:30, 16 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thin Smek ( talk • contribs)
The country Infobox declares this:
Current constitution 24 February 1976
via this:
| established_event6 = Current constitution | established_date6 = 24 February 1976
However, the first paragraph of "Government and politics" section contains this:
The Constitution of 1976, which defined Cuba as a socialist republic, was replaced by the Constitution of 1992, which is "guided by the ideas of José Martí and the political and social ideas of Marx, Engels and Lenin."[4]
Someone needs to go and check what constitution is current or otherwise explain the apparent contradiction. As I have no expertise in Cuban governance and politics, neither learnt Spanish, I should probably give it a pass. Thank you. Ken K. Smith (a.k.a. Thin Smek) ( talk) 11:25, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
The current constitution of Cuba, dates from april 10 of 2019, so my suggestion is to update that field
The official statement in Spanish http://www.parlamentocubano.gob.cu/index.php/proclamada-nueva-constitucion-de-la-republica-de-cuba/
The official news in English http://en.granma.cu/cuba/2019-04-10/the-new-constitution-and-enduring-values — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgazapo ( talk • contribs) 15:01, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi there, this section needs to be updated. The information is from over 8 years ago. Right now Cuba has an exponential grow in its Internet connection. There are more than 1200 public WIFI hotspots in parks, streets and squares, more than 670 cybercafés, and since Dec 2018 3G mobile data network is available in most of the country and even 4G in some areas of Havana and touristic zones as Varadero Beach. Also, very recently became legal to have an Internet connection and private WIFI at home. In addition, the current information it's not totally accurated on the "goverment control" issue, it looks like Cubans can't post a status on Facebook without being censored by the goverment, which is not true at all. Just an example of the liberty on the Internet we have that very recently two demostrations against goverment policies on LGBT rights and animal protection were organized using social media platforms.
Here are some references (All of them in Spanish though): http://www.trabajadores.cu/20181218/cuba-por-la-4g-en-2019/
https://www.bnamericas.com/es/noticias/cuba-pretende-tener-4g-en-capitales-proviciales-este-ano
https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-america-latina-48261027
-- Yazle ( talk) 19:38, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
Hi. I have added a summary of the cruel fate of the three indigenous peoples in Cuba. It was extracted from the wiki-articles on each people, namely Taíno, Guanahatabey and Ciboney. I have now added a singular ref to that summary as well to establish a better reffing, as it was brought up by a concerned editor.
While digging out singular refs, I discovered that cultural remains from the indigenous peoples has survived in Cuba and that genetically they are still present in Cuba's present population in a mix with African and European genes. An interesting subject. I haven't put up any info on that yet, though. But thought I would like to mention it. RhinoMind ( talk) 22:22, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
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HDI section of the of the side box- change 73th to 73rd. 147.70.46.156 ( talk) 20:23, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
hi — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.76.160.102 ( talk) 16:22, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Original information about Cuba and it's racial demographics.
I find that some of the information is false.
Cuba is not 64% White, because the very same people who claim to be white are actually mixed race who passed for white.
51% of the population is actually mixed race 37% of the population is white, and 11% of the population is actually black.
it's been this way for a very very long time and it suddenly there's been recent changes.
Some people over exaggerate or overstate but somebody is a liar. Robeyrobs ( talk) 17:53, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
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2012 Census of Cuba (latest): White 64.1 %, Mulatto or mixed 26.6 % and Black 9.3 %. The CIA accepts this data in its Cuba profile (cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cu.html) on The World Factbook. The current racial distribution in this article is wrong (1998 data is wrong too) and obsolete. It should be changed. Bitholov ( talk) 17:56, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
The latest data about race of the population of Cuba is the 2012 Census of Cuba. This is the source of the current race data in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62Bitholov ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
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I just want to edit a small thing in the Cuba article. The part that mentions mulattoes. It's written as " Cuba is 51% mulatto (mixed-race Spanish/African)" when in reality Mulattoes are mixed race of White and African not just Spanish. And Spaniards aren't the only White people that immigrated to Cuba. IceBrotherhood ( talk) 21:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
The population make up of my country as you have it now as of April 2020 is totally 100% misleading. To talk about Cuba's ethnic make up you have to take a long and hard look at all the historical development that started in 1511 when Diego Velasquez de Cuellar arrived in Cuba from Hispaniola and begun the colonization of my country. First of all the first slaves introduced into Cuba were white from Hispaniola later as the indigenous population of today's Dominican Republic continued to decline and was necessary to import large amounts of Africans then Spanish authorities in Cuba decided to import some black slaves in order not to repeat the same atrocities that took place in Hispaniola with the indigenous population there. In Cuba however due to warfare an important part of the male population died and also many took part in the conquest of Mexico, Florida and Central America there were even Cuban Indians in Guatemala. From that day on the mixing has been between mainly white males but also black men to a lesser degree with indigenous women all through the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century even the 20th century. But from the 17th century on important white enclaves of white families particularly from Spain but also other Europeans particularly Germans continued to come and enrich the racial fabric of my beloved country. So mestizos (Spanish but also other Europeans)with Amerindian women has been the norm with zambos (indian/black) pardos (white,black,indian) and yes later mulatos (blak/white) followed. I also want to remind you that an important population Amerindians exist and is growing more and more they make up 8% of Cuba's total population. The majority of Black Africans begun to arrive in Cuba in early 19th century with an important amount imported by the British in the 18th century to head start sugar cane production, this took place during the British invasion of Havana in the 17th century. Here you have the historical base to establish three main racial groups that have contributed to Cuba's racial make up. To this we have to add Chinese introduced mainly from the Philipines as indentured servants along with a large contingent on Maya Indians from the Yucatan which help strengthen Cuba's Amerindian heritage but white's continued to arrive in the 20th century but also in the 19th century. Putting all this together will help us arrive at a more accurate presentation of Cuba's racial make up. We Cubans particularly those living in Cuba are particularly mindful of all this talk about mulatos that conspire to still from us our Amerindian heritage which truly defines (Cubania} being Cuban.
We cannot compare Cuba with neither the Dominican Republic or even Puerto Rico (two different worlds) because the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were colonized first and a lot took place with their indigenous population that did not take place with ours in Cuba. Remember the whole idea that motivated Diego Velasquez to start colonization of Cuba was that he did not want to repeat what had taken place in Hispaniola. In 1550 Mr Angulo arrived in Cuba from Mexico he decided to end the enslavement of the American Indian and many Indian pueblos were established throughout Cuba which did not happen neither in the Dominican Republic or in Puerto Rico. With all this info I have not included the migration from Florida of Native Americans and whites particularly Spaniards running away from the changes that happened in that state as the Brits moved in to consolidate their presence in that part of the United States.
Cubans have this tendency to call Indians mulatos so when President Fulgencio Batista rose to power back in the twentieth century himself a Cuban Indian from Banes s town in eastern Cuba whcih at that time had a ethnia called Bani Indians. They are still there tough more assimilated. Some people particularly black Cubans prefer to treat him as one of is own an the tried to define him as a mulato, so begung the definition of anybody who did not look white as mulatos, and this particularly took place after the triumph of the Cuban revolution of 1959 when our Indian heritage took a back seat in order to give our black population the recognition that they deserved for having such an important role in the formation of our country because the dominant opinion was "it is better to be part Indian than part black" or having anything to do with black heritage.
The definition that you originally had there of Cuba being white 60% mestizo or was /and mulato 26.6% and black 9.3% was an acurate one even though you leave Amerindians who make up 8% of Cuba's population out but it is assumed that they are part in the mestizo component.
It is important that you reinstate that definition. I wonder who makes the decision to change that definition and on what historical account do the base their argument.
J L Molina — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:442:C380:A0F0:C58B:3EC:FDF9:59EA ( talk) 21:40, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
The ethnicity portion was changed from a 2012 study to a 1998 study. It is incorrect and should be change back to reflect the current, proper demographics. Chilee2k ( talk) 08:38, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
No one is going to do that, because a group of people are in the state of denial.
The way I see it, more than half the people who identify themselves as white in Cuba, or actually mulattoes which are the true majority.
Robeyrobss ( talk) 22:44, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
Most of the people in Cuba are mulatto, I don't understand why people like you would classify themselves as white.
In the Dominican republic, almost three-quarters of the population are mixed race.
You won't find mulattoes in the Dominican republic classic find himself as white, so what gives Cuba the privilege to classify themselves as white? Robeyrobss ( talk) 23:14, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
You are not Cuban and you base your approach to Cuban ethnicity on the opinions of Cuba's diaspora in the United States. Nobody can expect to arrive at an accurate and serious study of the topic on less you go to the home country and see how Cubans view themselves vs the historical background and the genetic studies which has been put in place since 2002, helps to arrive at the current ethnic definition whch is mestizos/and mulattoes. This is a very accurate description of Cuba's ethnicity. J.L.Molina — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:442:C380:A0F0:35B4:402B:8637:7EA1 ( talk) 18:44, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
Why someone Wikipedia keep changing the racial/ethnic composition of Cuba?
I'm being very serious about. I want to go on Wikipedia and research information about different countries because that's what I do that's what I love doing.
First states that Cuba is 65% White, then just two days ago someone changed it and stated that Cuba is 51% mulatto.
The last time I checked back in 2007 and 2008 Cuba was 51% mulatto and Cuba has been a mulatto Nation for a very very long time.
Suddenly in 2012 the white population rebounded and became the majority?
I'm not buying it for a long shot. Most people that I know who are from Cuba, states that most humans are mulatto, whites are second, then the blacks, then there's a small number of Chinese people.
Why is someone doing this? I believe that more than half the people who are mulatto, claim that they are white or have been at advance to White status, because mulatto see the cultural privileges that why Cubans have?
This information can be very misleading, and I don't like it one bit. Why is there always a discrepancy of Cuba's racial and ethnic composition serratus history?
Cuba has been mestizo (Spanish/European/Amerindian) mixture and then Black/Amerindian and White/Amerindian/Black mixture. Let me remind you that in Cuba and most Latin American nations mestizo and mulattoe mixture are intertwined to describe non-white Native Americans are regarded as people of color (non-black) but a very specialized type of mongoloid very multiphacetted therefore sometimes the confusion. the white population around the world is getting smaller and smaller, I don't believe for a second that the white population in Cuba is getting bigger and bigger.
hypodescent is the norm in Latin America, and I think that's what's going on. Robeyrobss ( talk) 21:49, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
--Ok, first, there may be multiply reasons for why someone might self-identify as different from ones genes, assumed ethnicity etc. Secondly, the source for the figure is the
CIA, so... it's possible the US government has an interest portraying things a certain way, so why don't you find better sources? Thirdly, it's not Wikipedia that keep changing the figures, but users like you and I. Fourthly, the source claims the figure is based on Cuban Census data from 2012 where people self-indemnified, some other countries which still uses old style censuses may have different practices where people might not at all be asked this question or asked it in a different way that would lead to a different outcome.
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As it was being explained recently in CUBAMAX television station which can be monitored through Dish cable during the 16,17,18,and 19 century the process of assimilation and missigenaion between Spanish/and other Europeans and Indians forming a mestizo population Spanish colonial authorities decided to categorize mestizos and even Indigenous as whites so in the 60% or 63% of White population count about 35% are of indigenous background. According to their opinions recently the population has demanded the that a reclassifying of the population take place in order to explain Cuba's ethnic composition more accurately. I want to appologize for a misquote of the British invasion that really took place in the 18th century around 1762 to be more exact previously I had mistakenly said that this invasion had taken place in the 17th century.
Btw, I actually looked up the figures you referenced and they seem to be based on the US State department figures/estimates. So the 'problem' I think is that we currently have different conflicting US government sources, if someone could find a better less self-conflicting and non-biased source (After all, see Cuba–United States relations for potential bias Cuba and US might have for each other based on their already rosy relations towards each other]] Kennet.mattfolk ( talk) 04:33, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia's verifiability policy states: "The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution." This policy is not being respected in recent edits to the article. Gatedais ( talk · contribs), this is a formal verifiability challenge concerning your recent edits, namely this run of nine edits and this run of sixteen, as well as recent previous edits of yours. Please add citations for all assertions of fact added in these edits. When I removed such material, your response was to revert ( here and here) contrary to policy, which states: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source." You don't have the right to add unsupported content to the article, and you don't have the right to restore it when it has been removed by another editor for cause. I already explained this to you at your talk page, but you haven't responded, other than to remove the notices. Please now provide sourcing for all content you added recently, and explain why your removal of sourced content is an improvement to the article. Thank you. Mathglot ( talk) 18:40, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
A new editor at Wikipedia is adding unsourced content to the article, and removing sourced content and references. I've sent them a couple of messages at their Talk page about this and invited them to come here to talk out their desired changes, but instead, they just reverted, and pushed their content in again. This bears watching. Mathglot ( talk) 12:19, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
😂😂😂😂😂 You’re pathetic. Gatedais ( talk) 20:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
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Thanks to Asukite for finding the original one. Mathglot ( talk) 07:26, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
I have been removing edits by block-evading socks. After removing content by three older editors, more recent editor Gatedais was identified as a block-evading sock. Removing his edits piecemeal is impossible; there are too many. This requires a rollback to revision 961784453 of 11:35, June 10, 2020. Although Gatedais had by far the majority of edits during this period, this will also remove edits by the following users:
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User:Doug Weller, can you look at the most recent edit history at Cuba? The rollback was removed within minutes by Ingrode ( talk · contribs) in rev. 976029537 of 9:57, August 31, 2020. Can you please revert their edit, and block Ingrode? The odds that they are not a block-evading sock of Gatedais/Krajoyn are close to zero. I think they might be getting increasingly desperate. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 20:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
Just by way of explanation to anyone landing here and lacking the context of what's been going on at the article: this discussion section above notes problems with the edits by Gatedais ( talk · contribs) at this article. The reason Gatedais went blindly forward doing whatever they wanted with no concern about policy, guidelines, edit summaries, or anyone else's opinion, is that they are one of a very long list of sockpuppets of Krajoyn ( talk · contribs); they just keep doing whatever they want until they get blocked, and then they create another sockpuppet and keep right on going where they left off, sometimes editing the same article with multiple accounts at the same time. If you go back through the history of Cuba, Europe, and other articles, you will see a lot of sockpuppets who have been active there. Krajoyn and all of his sockpuppets, past, present, and future are indefinitely banned from editing at Wikipedia. If you see activity that you suspect is from someone abusively using multiple accounts (here, or anywhere), please file a report. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 19:47, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
What is going on here? There is no racial segregation based on skin colour in Cuba. And skin colour has never defined ethnicity. This is a US policy, and by no means a universal policy. So why enforce this on Cuba? It doesn't make any sense. I don't care how CIA views the world. It doesn't matter any bit in this regard.
If we are going to add ethnic groups, Cuba has real ethnic groups to add. Ethnic groups like the indigenous indians for example. [1] RhinoMind ( talk) 14:44, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
(better ping some of those involved: @ AnglicanNights:) RhinoMind ( talk) 14:45, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
It's the Cuban government that has divided its people along these racial lines and CIA has simply quoted their census figure. I do agree with the fact that ethnicity doesn't equate to race necessarily (at least in the Latin American sense). However, the figures do provide an important insight into the country's demography and aren't dubious. Regards
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RhinoMind, would you like to take another look at this? As noted in previous discussion sections above, there has been a lot of sockpuppet activity at this article, and as it happens, everyone you discussed with previously in this section is a blocked sock. If you think the ethnicity figures in the article are amiss, I'd suggest you take another look at the situation, and do whatever you think is right, within the confines of WP:V, WP:NPOV, and any other relevant guidelines, of course. Mathglot ( talk) 06:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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Under Castro, Cuba was involved in a broad range of military and (Change: humanitarian activity To: military activities) in Guinea-Bissau, Syria, Angola, Algeria, South Yemen, North Vietnam, Laos, Zaire, Iraq, Libya, Zanzibar, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia, Congo-Brazzaville, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.[19] Cuba sent more than 400,000 of its citizens to fight in Angola (1975–91) and defeated South Africa's armed forces in conventional warfare involving tanks, planes, and artillery.[20] Cuban intervention in Angola contributed to the downfall of the apartheid regime in South Africa.[21] Donarcher ( talk) 21:45, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Comment: If it is already mentioned in the existing sources, please point it out. Thank you. -ink&fables «talk» 09:39, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
I recently found this statement: "There is virtually no homelessness in Cuba, and 85% of Cubans own their homes and pay no property taxes or mortgage interest. Mortgage payments may not exceed 10% of a household's combined income." This does not have a citation, but when I searched online for this information, it came up on the site 'King Weekly Sentinel' under the header of 'Looking for the ultimate utopian society': http://kingsentinel.com/?p=10271
However, I have not managed to find anything on the verifiability of this claim, especially given how significant it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1tome2 ( talk • contribs) 14:03, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
A recent edit added content sourced to TheCubanHistory.com, and there's at least one other use of this website going back a ways. User:AdrianCubano, I don't doubt your good faith in adding the content in that edit, but I do have questions about the reliability of the website "TheCubanHistory.com". If you check the guideline on WP:RELIABILITY, you'll see that we should base the article on "reliable, independent, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." (see WP:REPUTABLE). I'm not sure that this website meets that threshold, as it appears to me to be a self-published website by a single author (Arnoldo Varona), who provides no citations, and publishes without editorial review. That doesn't mean it's necessarily inaccurate, but it may not be high on the reliability scale, as it's very difficult to verify anything on the website.
Accordingly, I've started a discussion about this website at the Reliable sources Noticeboard, to get some other opinions about it. You can find the discussion here. There's already some good feedback there, and there may be more. Based on that discussion, I would say that we should not add content to this article which is based solely on TheCubanHistory.com; we should try to source it to a more reliable source.
Just as a general reminder: blogs and other self-published sources are generally not considered reliable sources for the purpose of WP:Verifiability, so please evaluate for reliability all the sources you use for the article. Also, be aware of published sources from Cuba that may be subject to governmental control. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 22:51, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
The #History section is long, and we already have an entire article on Cuban history. I propose that we refactor the #History section down to around a quarter to a third of its current size.
This article is 216kb (raw) and 79kb of prose; of which the #History section is about 1/3 of the total (see "section sizes" in the Talk header). Given that we already have an article on the History of Cuba (190kb raw; 112kb of prose), perhaps we should refactor the #History section here, cutting it back to make it shorter, and making it more of a summary of History of Cuba per WP:Summary style, after making sure that any unique information in the section is moved to the article before any cuts take place.
Thoughts? Mathglot ( talk) 03:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
The Economy section has several sections that seem to just restate a government position on various policies. I’m not sure how to fix this but perhaps a direct quotation would be better so the opinion is at least attributed. Otherwise, perhaps biased language could just be removed. There are also quite a few grammatical mistakes that seem like they may stem from the same Author.
Here’s an example with the most obvious grammatical issues highlighted: 2019, on June, the government announce increase the wages in the public sector, specially for the teachers and health personnel. The increase was about 300%.[246] Also, in October, the government open stores to by, through electronic cards, house equipment and similar using USD, Euros or other international currency, send it to Cuba by the cuban emigration. The leaders of the government recognized that the new measures were unpopular but necessary to contain the capital flight to other countries as Panamá where cuban citizens traveled and imported items to resell on the island.
I’m not familiar with editing Wikipedia so I haven’t made any changes to the page but did want to flag it as an issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.156.164.121 ( talk) 01:27, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
1) The statement that the Cuban missile crisis almost led to WWIII needs a citation.
2) "Tourism was initially restricted to enclave resorts where tourists would be segregated from Cuban society, referred to as "enclave tourism" and "tourism apartheid".[257] Contact between foreign visitors and ordinary Cubans were de facto illegal between 1992 and 1997.[258] The rapid growth of tourism during the Special Period had widespread social and economic repercussions in Cuba, and led to speculation about the emergence of a two-tier economy.[259]" No. I guess this means that after the Revolution, tourism was initially restricted, but as it reads, it does not say that.
3) There is nothing about post-Obama restrictions.
4) There is nothing about the July 2021 demonstrations. 79.134.37.73 ( talk) 03:14, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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I found problematic content added in this diff. For starters, some references do not have a page number to back their respective statements, which makes it harder to verify the information. Nonetheless, I have tried my best to check where in those references their respective phrases are located. Soviet and Communist Studies is an extremely controversial and polarizing subject, where consensus is hard to find. The sources do back up the authoritarianism part, but I don't think those sources point to academic consensus. The second one, "Social Revolution and Authoritarian Durability", for instance, argues in favor of a distinct definition of authoritarianism: "All the regimes encompassed by our definition are authoritarian, which should not be surprising". "Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War" attributes it to Larry Diamond. The third, "Democratization Theory and Nontransitions: Insights from Cuba" is not from a peer-reviewed journal. For instance, books like "Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution" (Oxford University Press), "We Are Cuba!" (Yale University Press), "Cuba: what everyone needs to know" (Oxford University Press), "Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana" (University Press of Florida); that is, University books about Cuba, do not label the country as "authoritarian"; and these things indicate, in my opinion, that it shouldn't be written in WP:WIKIVOICE. Furthermore, it's stated that "political opposition is not permitted". For this, I have not found proof in those three cited sources. In "Cuban Revelations", it's stated that the Communist Party *represses* it's opponents, and has a nuanced take on this, stating that these dissidents ("small, isolated groups of individuals within Cuba who challenge the government") are "caught in the middle of an undeclared war and the propaganda that goes with it"; that "the United States and its allies openly and covertly provide Cuban dissidents with funds and resources"; and when "dissidents are inevitably repressed, the unlucky individuals become the excuse to paint the island as a tropical gulag and justify external sanctions". Furthermore, it's stated that "most Cubans are seeking change through reform and evolution of the system", and that "most Cubans are dissidents, just not 'dissidents' as they are known abroad". (Part III, Human Rights). For the "There are elections in Cuba but they are not democratic"; I couldn't find evidence on the cited sources ( WP:OR ?), and this also goes against the books I cited earlier. "Authoritarian Regimes and Their Permitted Oppositions" even says that "Cuba’s electoral system permits different forms of regime opposition", which is a bit odd considering the earlier phrase states that "political opposition is not permitted". The source for "Censorship of information (including limits to internet access) is extensive" is reason.com (??) and a Human Rights Watch book from 1999, which, aside from its glaring age, is not an organization that can be cited without attribution. The Inter American Press Association is also cited without attribution at the lead in WP:WIKIVOICE. -- BunnyyHop ( talk) 05:36, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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Bitcoin is not a currency of Cuba and should be removed. The Aljazeera article used as a source does not even mention the supposed September 7th date. The article also doesn't say Cuba will recognize bitcoin. The word bitcoin appears once in the article, referencing El Salvador using bitcoin, not Cuba. 75.164.82.226 ( talk) 17:41, 28 August 2021 (UTC)
It is mentioned that with ordenance task the wages were increased 4~9 times, but the truth is that everything ended up in an inflation without control, which was even worse with the economical problems associated to the coronavirus pandemic. As Cuba's average monthly salary rises to 4'000 pesos, packages of medications can have prices of thousands of pesos (if you find them, sometimes we have to travel to other provinces). The truth is that 1 USD ≠ 24 CUP, in fact, if you find someone willing to sell you dolars, prices can rise to 62 CUP, because the government ceased the receipt of dollars in the banks. You have no idea of the situation of the country, worthy of a book Frankernesto23 ( talk) 00:31, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
If you look at the casualty and losses section of the article on /info/en/?search=Battle_of_Cuito_Cuanavale , it is clear cut that Cuba with their allies, FAPLA and the Soviet Union lost the battle to South Africa and UNITA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.0.106.56 ( talk) 21:08, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
Not particularly sure because this journal, describes the point of views of Department of Defense and State, in which both either describe the need to support Castro for hemispheric defense
or the fact that continued corruption with Batista's regime meant that revolutionary alternatives were soon viable. It also adds the Department of Defense continued several armed forces' missions in Cuba.
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In 2020, the official population of Cuba was 11,181,595 inhabitants. Source: Anuario Estadistico de Cuba 2020 (in Spanish).
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Please change "On January 1, 2021, the government launch the "Tarea Ordenamiento" (Ordenance Task) (previously announced on national TV transmission by the Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel, with the presence of Gen. Raùl Castro Ruz, then the first secretary of the Cuba Communist Party), an effort thought by years, to finally end the use of the Cuban convertible peso (CUC) and only use the Cuban peso (CUP) in all the economy and to elevate the efficiency of the Cuban economy."
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"On January 1st, 2021, Cuba's dual currency system was formally ended and the convertible Cuban peso (CUC) was phased out, leaving the Cuban peso (CUP) as the sole currency unit of the country. Cuban citizens had until June to exchange their CUC. However, this devalued the Cuban peso and caused economic problems for people who had been previously paid in CUC, particularly workers in the tourism industry."
Sources: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article247776195.html
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/1/what-will-cubas-new-single-currency-mean-for-the-island
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/7/16/cuba-protests-the-economic-woes-helping-drive-discontent 168.213.7.236 ( talk) 16:34, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
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Add source to claim about reliance on remittances
https://oncubanews.com/cuba/envio-de-remesas-a-cuba-cayo-el-5414-en-2020-segun-expertos/
Here it is stated as a drop from 6616 million dollars to 2967 million as a consequence of the covid pandemic. Would these numbers perhaps suffice as 6616 million dollars annually is around $600 per capita annually.
http://www.thehavanaconsultinggroup.com/en-US/Articles/Article/20?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
This source also points to remittances being a significant economic factor (and as well in relation to other latin american/ central american countries) Ormbunk ( talk) 14:27, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
The title speaks for itself, this is the biggest Caribbean nation keyword, nation Coopdeloop22 ( talk) 20:45, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Should Popular Councils and the town with the same name as the Popular Council be different wikipedia pages or the same? Because Vega Alta, Cuba is a Popular Council and a town and there’s a Popular Council section, should the section be a Wikipedia page or stay like that? CubanoBoi ( talk) 14:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
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For the intro, please mention that it is "an island country in the Caribbean. 2600:100C:A202:871A:4F6:FD13:9359:2A79 ( talk) 12:42, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
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In the "Capital" section of the infobox, can anyone remove the unnecessary word "City" from " Havana City"? 64.114.239.31 ( talk) 15:18, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
The gini score on the sidebar is from 2000, which is pretty old and not that useful. I think it would be better to have it removed or updated (if a source exists for it, though I haven't seen one). KlayLay ( talk) 17:03, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
From the history section of the article, it is claimed that "Back in power, and receiving financial, military, and logistical support from the United States government, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike." The source is an entire chapter, from pages 199 to 238, by Lillian Guerra in the book A Century of Revolution Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America’s Long Cold War. After reading the entire chapter (after first using control F to search for mentions of Batista and the United States), there is no mention on any of the pages of this chapter of the US supporting Batista for his return to power in 1940.
It's extremely propaganda-like to make citations to books and then cite broad ranges of text for a specific claim, knowing most people won't read the entire citation to check, particularly when the claim is in fact not supported by the source. Coreyman317 ( talk) 03:42, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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In this article it says that Cuba has one of the best infant mortality rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. That is a lie, dozens of children die every month in hospitals, or before being born, due to malnutrition, hunger, lack of medicines, lack of medical equipment and electricity. Lack of drinking water and hygiene in hospitals and health centers in general. The children who survive grow up hungry, without resources to go to school, or transportation. Developing other deseases because they have to live in marginality, and they grow up looking for sustenance to eat and help their parents in extreme poverty. Hence the prostitution, theft, and the illegal sale of basic necessities at exorbitant prices. Which leads them to the total corruption of a society corrupted in every way today. Going to school is not important, nor becoming a professional because you won’t earn enough to live on. So the children with values and principals in Cuba only dream of leaving the country one day to have a future for them and their families.
The following quote comes from the third paragraph of the article lead and has three citations:
"Censorship of information (including limits to Internet access) is extensive,"
There are three citations. The first article cites an entirely different article for this information published all the way back in 2003 from a far less prestigious journal called "Foreign Policy", which publishes articles with titles such as " The Evils of Self-Determination" and other articles that sound like conspiracy theory ramblings, like this one here.
The last two citations are also incredibly dated. One cites a piece of yellow journalism from a libertarian website, an article written in 2008. The other cites an article dated all the way from 1999 ! This source come from a time when all computers had glass screens and 10MB of RAM. They can't be used as reliable sources to learn about the internet in 2023.
I intend to remove these citations and this sentence from the header.
The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 01:08, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
I propose to separate article about Cuba (island) and Cuba (country), the same as with Malta and Malta (island). We already have article " Geography of Cuba" so the text from this article about this island could be used in order to create this new article. Prkp99 ( talk) 14:13, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
Cuba is a Marxist-Leninist state, and it says so in both the 1976 and 2019 constitutions, so I suggest updating the source so the info box cites today's Cuban constitution. 2600:4041:552C:3200:2CE4:498F:CC24:2447 ( talk) 21:22, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
I want to explain to fellow editors why I just deleted some very controversial content. I've had a look at the first sentence of the "Human rights" section which reads like this.
"The Cuban government has been accused of numerous human rights abuses including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions (also known as "El Paredón")."
There are two sources for this paragraph.
The first source is a US State Department report from 2016. [1] The report doesn't make any mention of torture, executions, or "El Paredón". In fact the report doesn't mention any human rights abuses in Cuba. Even if it did, the United States government is not a reliable source of information on Cuba, considering both the USA's long record of hostilities towards Cuba coupled with their track record of dubious allegations against foreign governments they wish to topple ( Nurse Nayirah, Iraq WMDs, etc).
The second source is an Organization of American States report on Cuba published in 1967. [2] Regardless of how reliable this source may be, why are we using sources published from over half a century ago to comment on contemporary Cuba? Imagine if a wikipedia editor used articles on segregation written by Rosa Parks to describe America in 2023.
I am astounded at the poor quality of much of the content on the Cuba wiki page, especially on such sensitive topics as torture and censorship. The History Wizard of Cambridge ( talk) 01:43, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
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I cite these studies that question the statistics prepared by the Cuban government and taken as a reference in international metrics. [1] [2] [3] ComradeHektor ( talk) 22:02, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
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Delete the "Back in power, and receiving financial, military, and logistical support from the United States government..." where since the source [104] doesn't even mention the claim in the nearly 40 pages referenced. Coreyman317 ( talk) 23:40, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Wilfredor, what I was requesting here was that the statement to be sourced to several high-quality academic sources. It should also be put into context (embargo, etc.) and elaborated, as done in the Economy section. When several academic sources are in consensus about a statement, claims do not need to be attributed in-text — and such claims are then appropriate for due inclusion in the lead section. – Vipz ( talk) 14:54, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
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Christopher Columbus didn't discover Cuba, people were already living there. He just landed there. 2600:6C4E:237F:5C08:5B9:DFB1:C8E7:C188 ( talk) 16:04, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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other languages-- Haitian Creolebr<< Englishbr<< Lucumí 2600:1700:3356:EC00:504A:B56:4202:8D24 ( talk) 00:47, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
Many edits are confusing democracy with partisan or pluralist democracy. Single party democracies exist *prior* to our own ideological beliefs on what the correct form of democracy is. Democracy is not pluralism of *parties* (partisanship) but the pluralism of *participation* in the form of *voting*.
People vote in Cuba, have elections, and change policies at local, regional, and national levels. Recently, they even rewrote their constitution starting at the grassroots level. It is, regardless of ideology, a literal democracy. Nraisbeck ( talk) 22:11, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
It seems like at some point the hyperlink for the English Language in the Other Languages section got dropped somehow. If this is purposeful please educate me, I'm very new to editing. ErisAvernus ( talk) 21:00, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
North Hudson, NJ is not a real place. The term is not used informally either. It should be changed to Union City, NJ or Hudson County, NJ.
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Is there a reason we are citing CIA information as opposed to probably more reliable, and likely less biased, data like that of the UN for example? They do have a clear geopolitical interest, and a history of stretching facts to support that interest across the whole region. I'm not trying to say that the CIA is outright lying but more that the inherent biases in the people making the data may render it less accurate than the UN's data as an example. Hexifi ( talk) 03:38, 16 January 2024 (UTC)