After taking power in 1959, Castro quickly adopted measures to transform the Cuban economy into a planned and centralized body. …Hundreds of thousands of Cubans lost their land, property, and businesses when Cuban communist revolutionaries confiscated private property. …In Cuba, the failures of an overambitious centralized planning economy also brought about widespread famine from shortages of basic goods. In 1990, 20 years after Castro’s takeover, Cubans resorted to eating cats and dogs to survive. Crime became rampant as people struggled to survive. People waited in long lines at state warehouses to get rations of fundamental food items like eggs. [Search Venezuela at YouTube, and you will find similar problems from socialism / communism]
