Education, Health First in Cuba Budget
Cuba will assign in 2007 22.6 percent of its Gross Domestic Product for public health and education, a figure that is four times the standard of the Latin American nations for those sectors.

Spending for health, education, culture, sports, security and social assistance represent 69 percent of the 2007 budget in the island.

Social development rates in the Caribbean state, worldwide extolled, exceed those of many wealthy nations.

Besides, Cuba is the Latin American country with the biggest equity in the distribution of incomes and has the highest quality services in health, elementary and secondary teaching.

It is also first in low children mortality and unemployment rates as well as it offers subsidized food to the population.

Cuba´s achievements are registered amid the US over four-decade blockade, lately intensified and also rejected during 15 consecutive years at the UN General Assembly.