Private property returns after 50 years: Cubans allowed to buy and sell their homes

Tuesday, April 19th 2011 - 04:57 UTC

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Cuba says it will allow people to buy and sell their homes for the first time since the communist revolution in 1959. For the past 50 years, Cubans have only been allowed to pass on their homes to their children, or to swap them through a complicated and often corrupt system. Read full article

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riomarcos
The sad and unfortunate Cuban people had to suffer under the terrible yolk of this geriatric mob for so long! Meanwhile their Caribbean brothers in Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Barbados, Aruba, etc have enjoyed a much, much higher standard of living in freedom. Cuba is a floating museum of horror, a living monument to a foul ideology responsible for murder, torture, repression, and every atrocity man has ever visited upon his fellow man. Here's hoping that the winds of change that are sweeping away the Arab world's tyrants, will do away with Cuba's dictatorship as well.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 01:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard
This will “breathe new life into the communist system”

Since when has home ownership and capital gains been part of the communist system?

No, this is an explicit recognition that the 'communist' family dictatorship failed its people and is to be replaced by a form of capitalism.
Apr 19th, 2011 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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