3. Cuba: How did authoritarian rule affect people’s lives?
Castro had a clear agenda of bringing social justice to the people of Cuba, and his policies in education and health transformed the lives of ordinary people. More controversial were his economic policies, which brought about the hostility of both the middle classes and the US, and also his political policies which involved persecution, control and repression, and the establishment of a one party state.
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