Caribbean & Central America - January 2007 (ISSN 1741-4458)

The communist party newspaper, Granma, claimed, in early January, that in 25 towns in 12 provinces where 800,118 people lived, there had been no infant mortality in 2006. The paper noted that in 2006, Cuba's national infant mortality rate (IMR) was just 5.3 per thousand live births. Only Canada, in the western hemisphere, has a lower rate. Infant mortality is a key indicator of political stability. Cuba's low IMR suggests that the transition from a Fidel Castro-led administration to a new government is unlikely to be derailed by a popular uprising. 

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