Reforms start in Cuba
This weekend, I finished writing up a 15-page narrative of our rcent holiday in Cuba (some photographs will follow later) and you can read this here.
Today the “Guardian” has a full-page feature on the mild reforms in the Cuban economy just announced by new president Raul Castro. The conclusion of the article is as follows:
“Only so much ruin can be blamed on the US embargo and when the Castro brothers die, taking with them the revolution’s founding legitimacy, its fate will hinge on delivering better material conditions, said one Havana economist: “They know they have maybe five years to turn things around. It’s fix or perish.” Sceptics say the effort is doomed. That no matter how much a moribund agriculture blossoms or how fast greater wealth trickles down, Cuba will remain an outpost of unworkable ideology until the day the place implodes.”