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Cuba is a founding member of the United
Nations, the G77, the Non-Aligned Movement,
the Organization of African, Caribbean and
Pacific States, ALBA and the Organization of
American States. It has currently one of the
world's only planned economies, and its
economy is dominated by the tourism industry
and the exports of skilled labor, sugar, tobacco,
and coffee. According to the Human Development
Index, Cuba has high human development and is
ranked the eighth highest in North America,
though 72nd in the world in 2019. It also ranks
highly in some metrics of national performance,
including health care and education. It is the
only country in the world to meet the conditions
of sustainable development put forth by
the WWF. Cuban government policies have
largely eradicated hunger and poverty according
to the World Food Programme and Cuba boasts
the lowest malnutrition death rate in Latin
America as a result.
International non-governmental organizations
and experts consider Cuba as an authoritarian
regime, without free and fair multi-
party competitive elections and have accused
Cuban government of numerous human
rights abuses, including short-term arbitrary
imprisonment and jailing of political opponents,
purges and curtailed press freedom.

SPORTS IN CUBA
The outstanding sports achievements of Cuba
in the last two years in athletics, boxing,
volleyball, basketball and others, besides its
supremacy in baseball, have attracted world
attention.
The resounding victories of Alberto Juantorena,
double Olympic champion, who broke the world
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