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Raul Castro promises ‘gradual and orderly’ transfer of power to new generations
The Cuban Revolution remains a movement of young people, President Raul Castro said on Friday during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of an attack on a military barracks which is considered the starting point of the uprising that brought it to power in 1959. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesJust what is it about the 'leaders' of SA, in that they must vie for the title of “Twat of the Day” by stating some bollocks about the Old Cunts Of Cuba?
Jul 27th, 2013 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity the black sergeant who found Fidel didn’t do what he should have done and shot the bastard on the spot.
“here stand the children of Chavez and the Cuban revolution”. Well yes, you ARE all bastards, that’s for sure.
One wonders why Rafael Correa was not there . Could it be that he is starting to realize that his old friends are moving to economic and political chaos . He was also low key on the Snowden case .
Jul 27th, 2013 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Having the same government for over 50 years isn't a revolution.
Jul 27th, 2013 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It isn't evolution.
It's stagnation.
South American nations who side with the Castro regime all the time are indeed betraying the cuban people, are stabbing them on the back, are abandoning them to the Castro hyenas.
Jul 27th, 2013 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cuba has became the garbage can of LA.......All those leftist leaders that are sinking their countries get together there ......
Jul 27th, 2013 - 11:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here in Miami we see a constant influx of Cubans. My Cuban boss so hated the Communist party of Ciba that he made a raft, flung himself into the ocean where he was attacked by sharks. He finally washed ashore in the Cayman Islands where he was quarantined for many months. After five years here he was co-owner of a construction company employing 90 people. My young Cuban friend just graduated with a degree in accounting from Miami-Dade College. When she was 15 yrs. old she was arrested in Cuba for being a capitalist. Her “crime” was that she rented out video disks to her friends for a dollar. I knew another Cuban man who as a young boy took a job cleaning and straightening up a shoe store. He kept the job for many years eventually he became the owner of the store. Two weeks later the people from the Communist Party walked in and demanded the keys. They seized the store in the name of the people.
Jul 28th, 2013 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In my job as a salesman for the construction company I have met many Europeans including several British just out of Cuba who have told me that they entered into contracts with the Cuban regime, fulfilled them, and never got paid. Cuba has the reputation of not paying for things bought on credit. Many suppliers have placed them on a cash up front basis. A European documentarian was recently given permission to travel and record the length and breadth of Cuba. I wish I could remember what it's called but the small towns have sunk to a level that brought tears to my eyes. The Party says it's owing to the American blockade but we sell them food and medical supplies (cash only) and they are free to buy anything they want elsewhere. The U.S. does withhold its business from certain companies if they supply the regime but there are more holes in it than in a wedge of Swiss cheese. There are plenty of folks in Panama for example that'd be happy to make a buck sending them stuff and of course Venezuela effectively gives them their oil.
Castro is a cold blooded murderer.
Why Cuba's economic model failed
Jul 28th, 2013 - 04:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0First, prior to the 1959 communist revolution, Cuba enjoyed the status of one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America, known for high level of judicial independence and strong protection of private property rights. Not surprisingly, before the revolution, Cuba recorded the highest stock market capitalization of any Latin American countries. The solid level of capital market development was a mere reflection of sound contract enforcement instituted by the judicial protection and the rule of law. When the revolution began, Cuba eliminated all private property rights by collectivization of land and by a complete nationalization of private enterprises. By that time, the very fundamentals of economic development were destroyed.
Second, Cuban communist leaders looked up to the Soviet Union as a role model of the socialist society. By the time of the revolution, Cuba followed the course of destructive economic policy. It began imposing price controls and the trade with the rest of the world, except for the socialist countries, was ended. In addition, civil and personal liberties vanished under the communist regime. Therefore, Cuban economic model resulted in food shortages, land depletion, massive immigration and frequent oil crises.
The collapse of the Cuban system was anticipated since every communist nation ended its Marxist economic experiment in the disastrous failure. The ultimate roots of Cuban economic failure lie in the belief of the power of the state to replace free price mechanism and free enterprise system as the coordinator of economic decisions of individuals and firms. The case of Cuba reaffirmed the unprecendent failure and theoretical inconsistency of Marxist economic theory and policy. Cuban political and economic experiment once again showed that socialist political philosophy is based on false and misguided philosophical premises that completely misunderstood the meaning and nature of human liberty.
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