Cuba's economy under Castro has not been a thriving success by any measure, but is it really necessary to make up numbers to exaggerate its failure? Marketplace radio apparently believes that it is.
It told listeners this morning that, adjusted for inflation, Cuba's per capita income was $2000 a year in 1953, today it is just $200 a year. According to the CIA Factbook, Cuba's per capita GDP in 2006 was $4,100.
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