Like most Communist nations Cuba set out to build up its industry. In 1959 what little industry Cuba had was mostly related to mining and sugar production. At first Castro worked to redirect resources into building factories that could manufacture the finished goods Cubans needed. However, by the mid-1960s he realized that industrializing Cuba was a far more daunting task than he had realized. Moreover, by this point Cuba had become so dependent on selling sugar in order to obtain the machinery, spare parts, and petroleum products it needed that it just made sense to focus on promoting agriculture rather than industry. For the remainder of Castro's regime the Cuban government devoted much time and attention to producing agricultural technicians and developing the types of industry on which agriculture depended. Unlike Soviet communism, which subordinated agriculture to industry, the Castro regime subordinated...