Odds and ends
- Cuban Colada has the story of the Spanish businessman who was freed pending trial in Cuba this week.
- Pedro Campos, described as a retired Cuban diplomat in the English-language Havana Times website, writes a critical examination of the debates taking place in Cuban workplaces. He also writes at this Spanish-language site that I hadn’t seen before, “Bulletins of Participatory and Democratic Socialism.”
- AFP: Venezuela and Nicaragua take some shots at the U.S. embargo of Cuba in an OAS meeting, and the U.S. representative fires back.
- Reuters: Freed dissident Nelson Aguiar describes his prison conditions, thanks the Spanish government for interceding on his behalf, and calls on his own government to release all political prisoners.
campos article very interesting; lets hope the decentralization efforts in min of agr continue to be successful, raul has to move it to other areas. the command economy of cuba has to be disassembled without sacrificing the social justice programs. if the govt is serious about increasing production and reducing inefficiencies and corruption, then this is the way that has to be taken.
ReplyDelete"the command economy of cuba has to be disassembled without sacrificing the social justice programs."
ReplyDeleteYes, sacrifices must sometimes be made to preserve the Project, just as is happening in Zimbabwe and the People's Democratic Republic of Korea. But under no circumstances should uppity Cubans be allowed to indulge in so-called "freedom of expression," which would mark the beginning of the end of the social justice programs.