Editing Fulgencio Batista (section)

===Economy of Cuba===
Upon his seizure of power, Batista inherited a country that was relatively prosperous for Latin America. According to Batista's government, although a third of Cubans still lived in poverty, Cuba was one of the five most developed countries in the region.<ref name="heroic">{{cite news|title=The Cuban revolution at 50: Heroic myth and prosaic failure|date=December 30, 2008|newspaper=The Economist|url=http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12851254}}</ref> In the 1950s, Cuba's [[gross domestic product]] (GDP) per capita was roughly equal to that of Italy at the time, although still only a sixth of that of the United States.<ref name="gonzalez">{{Cite book|title=The Secret Fidel Castro|author=Servando Gonzalez}}</ref> Moreover, although corruption and inequality were rife under Batista, Cuban industrial workers' wages rose significantly. In 1953, the average Cuban family only had an income of $6.00 a week, 15% to 20% of the labor force was chronically unemployed, and only a third of the homes had running water.<ref name = "JFK1960">[http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25660 Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Democratic Dinner, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 6, 1960] from the ''[[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library]]''.</ref><ref name="gonzalez"/> Despite this, according to the [[International Labour Organization]], the average industrial salary in Cuba became the world's eighth-highest in 1958, and the average agricultural wage was higher than some European nations (although, according to one sample from 1956 to 1957, agricultural workers could only find employment for an average of 123 days per year while farm owners, rural tenants and sharecroppers worked an average of only 135 days per year).<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Connor |first1=James |title=The Origins of Socialism in Cuba |date=1970 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca |isbn=978-0801405426 |page=58}}</ref> Not like in his first term, where he advocated for [[Corporatism]], he began to advocate for [[Economic liberalism]].