Comparison of Development
...claiming much of Europe, and it’s more technologically advanced colonies, to be the most “developed” nations in the world. It was automatically presumed all nations should achieve this state, thus underdeveloped countries simply needed to follow the same route to take off into Modernity. Cuba and Argentina were both directed on this road in the post World War Two era. The results differed almost immediately. Although each successfully resisted, it was for entirely different reasons. Argentina, being one of the top developed counties in the western view, chose to pursue a more socialist route. In contradiction, Cuba was under outside control and successfully revolted against the system pursuing a communist path and have thus been viewed as nemesis to the neo-liberal pursuit of globalization ever since. Fifty years latter, an assessment of the two Latin American countries current situations allows for a comparison of the different approach’s success in ‘development’. During the 1950’s Cuba was perce...