cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48348299
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has acknowledged that some of the island’s economic problems ‘don’t come from outside’, a reference to foreign pressure campaigns [Getty]
Cuba’s Communist Party has approved a raft of unprecedented free-market measures as part of an emergency economic package.
The package was submitted to the country’s National Assembly on Thursday, where it is all but assured to pass.
The plan would expand opportunities for private enterprise and create measures to attract additional foreign investment, including from Cubans abroad.
It could also set the stage for private real estate development on the Caribbean island and the transformation of state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes. It would also allow private banks to enter Cuba’s once state-dominated finance sector.
The reform package signals a dramatic shift for Cuba, which is led by the Communist Party.
Baron von Shitzenpantz will claim credit for this one.
if their system of government is so bad, why we have to sanction the shit out of them ? Just leave them be and they’ll collapse if you’re hypothesis is right.
Also, why them and not say Vietnam etal ?
Vietnam stopped being socialist a long time ago. They still retain the authoritarianism of Marxism, but not the socialist economy.
That might not be so bad
It could also set the stage for private real estate development on the Caribbean island
Nevermind
Also, right after that:
and the transformation of state-owned businesses into private commercial ventures with shares and equity stakes.
Nothing good comes from the stock market these days, except short term profits.
This is going to turn Cuba into an American-company-owned holiday island.
The last days of the Cuban revolution have begun. Fidel is rolling over in his grave.
Good
So the US is going to lift the embargo on Cuba, right? Right?
A tragic day for workers the world over
