
S2 Episode 3 - "New Normal"
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Cuban Revolutionary History
In September 1960, Fidel Castro lays out what becomes known as the Declaration of Havana. The land reform and new minimum wage spurred year-round employment for rural workers at new state farms. A Social Security bill established benefits for incapacitation and whittledhood. Private clubs, including racially segregated ones, had their doors thrown open to everybody. And all this is before the start of education in 1961, which will eliminate illiteracy inside Cuba.
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