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You need to remember that Cuba always been wealthier then [other Caribbean nations:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba#Economy) >Before Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution, Cuba was one of the most advanced and successful countries in Latin America. Cuba's capital, Havana, was a "glittering and dynamic city". The country's economy in the early part of the century, fuelled by the sale of sugar to the United States, had grown wealthy. Cuba ranked 5th in the hemisphere in per capita income, 3rd in life expectancy, 2nd in per capita ownership of automobiles and telephones, and 1st in the number of television sets per inhabitant. Relative to their neighbors, the standard of living in Cuba has gone down.