CubaFidel Castro led the 1959 Cuban Revolution and governed Cuba as prime minister and then president until 2008. He established a one-party socialist state, nationalized the economy and aligned the country with the Soviet Union.
In the 12 Axes register, Fidel Castro leans hardest on Democratic – Autocratic: Autocratic 95%; the register median is Democratic 68%.
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Where Fidel Castro sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centralized
Centralized one-party state
Autocracy
Personal rule for nearly five decades
Authoritarian
Jailed dissidents, controlled media
Cooperation
Cuban nationalism with Third World solidarity
Militarist
Sent troops to Angola and Ethiopia
Polyculturalist
Officially outlawed racial discrimination
Communist
Nationalized nearly all enterprise
Planned Economy
Central planning
Protectionist
Trade tied to the Soviet bloc
Atheist
Atheist state until the 1990s
Progressive
Revolutionary social programs
Technological
Invested in medicine and biotechnology
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Fidel Castro is at Autocratic 95%. The register median is Democratic 68%.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Fidel Castro is at Unitary 83%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
