Pre-Cuban Revolution Economics

Paul Walcutt:

I would like to know what the economic situation was in Cuba from before the revolution of Fidel Castro. And can you give me some sites where this is also described?

Eric Williams (author of From Columbus to Castro:

The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969, Vintage Books, New York, 1984): The economy was directly tied to the international price of sugar. US business interests owned 75% of the arable land on the island before 1959 and controlled 40% of the country's sugar production. Thsi more or less made Cuba a economic colony of the US with Bautista as the puppet leader. This relationship led to the widespread popular support amongst Cubans who gravitated towards Castro's movement.

http:

//www.historyofcuba.com/cuba.htm