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Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

HAVANA – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro

well fido castro....no kidding....

even with the american embargo, you ran a shithole and took money for yourself at the cost of all your serfs
 
Right. He has the ability to really fight off the american military.

Don't be a douche.
Yeah, clearly he immediately made changes to the failing economic plan because he feared the American military. The Bay of Pigs pretty much scared him so much that there never was a communist nation down there, nobody ever tried to escape that crippling poverty, there isn't one happening now...

There's nothing to see here, just move along.
 
Yeah, clearly he immediately made changes to the failing economic plan because he feared the American military. The Bay of Pigs pretty much scared him so much that there never was a communist nation down there, nobody ever tried to escape that crippling poverty, there isn't one happening now...

There's nothing to see here, just move along.

This just means multinationals will go in and put more americans out of work with 20 cent / hour laborers. That's your version of capitalism.

You think cuba can take the u.s. Military? You're dumber than i thought.

Right. There's no way Fidel could be motivate by external pressure. Get a grip, dude.
 
Maybe Raul and Fidel should take a trip to china to see how well capitalism can flourish under a communist system. I'm sure there are multinational corporations in the US that would love to give Cuban slave laborers a raise to $21 a day. Maybe they could move some companies from the US to Cuba and save billions in wages and benefits.
 
This just means multinationals will go in and put more americans out of work with 20 cent / hour laborers. That's your version of capitalism.

You think cuba can take the u.s. Military? You're dumber than i thought.

Right. There's no way Fidel could be motivate by external pressure. Get a grip, dude.

Right, Fiddle is not motivated by external pressure.
 
Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

HAVANA – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_cuba_fidel_castro

well fido castro....no kidding....

even with the american embargo, you ran a shithole and took money for yourself at the cost of all your serfs

What will happen if the Cuban Mafia currently holed up in Miami are able to get back to Cuba? I can't help thinking that it may end up becoming the new Columbia. The US has had many opportunities to reconcile their differences with Cuba, but instead has chosen the nasty and vindictive option of maintaining an economic embargo which makes absolutely no sense in this day and age.

The US has absolutely no problem dealing with China, which is still a Communist regime, yet Cuba is considered to be a pariah. Jesse Helms is dead and buried for God's sake, you need to wake up and leave the past behind.

http://www.newcriminologist.com/article.asp?nid=2177

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/time_to_change/
 
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What will happen if the Cuban Mafia currently holed up in Miami are able to get back to Cuba? I can't help thinking that it may end up becoming the new Columbia. The US has had many opportunities to reconcile their differences with Cuba, but instead has chosen the nasty and vindictive option of maintaining an economic embargo which makes absolutely no sense in this day and age.

The US has absolutely no problem dealing with China, which is still a Communist regime, yet Cuba is considered to be a pariah. Jesse Helms is dead and buried for God's sake, you need to wake up and leave the past behind.

http://www.newcriminologist.com/article.asp?nid=2177

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2008/09/time_to_change/


Embargoes make lots of sense. It's one of the sticks in the carrot and stick approach to diplomacy. We should embargo china and not buy from them until they treat people like humans and stop manipulating their currency, for instance.

Globalization zealotry is mental disease.

Many nations needs a healthy dose of protectionism to buck up their economies. Free people only lose when slaves are allowed on the international labor market.
 
If trading in smaller units is good, Asshat, why not ban all trade? Wouldn't that leave the world at maximal production, since arbitrarily restricting trade at the individual level is the smallest level possible? What level of restricting trade leads to maximal production and happiness? Why do you believe that this level of trade just so happens to perfectly align with meanigless lines that were arbitrarily drawn in the sand centuries ago because some asshat won a war somewhere? Why should compassion stop at borders?
 
Cuba is not poor because its communist its poor because of economic sanctions. Would China have the second largest economy in the world if America hadn't lifted economic sanctions on them in 70's. Successful countries are ones that do buisness with america. Failing countries are ones that don't do buisness with america.
 
All I know is that the cigar industry in Cuba has lost major ground to the Nicaraguan and Honduran makers. All the labor is cheap down there, and Cuban Tobacco is still great, but the quality of cigar sucks. Draw issues, burn issues, all I think linked to the fact that no one is actually rewarded for being a great roller or blender. There are some good vitolas from some factories but no factory is producing great cigars across the board, like Cohiba did in the late 80's early 90's. Every cigar that factory made was killer. Now there are only a few out of all the sizes and shapes and names.
 
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