In what will surely be stunning news to Cubans ...
President Raul Castro declared Thursday that Cuba's two-year experiment with market reforms is working and has the wind at its back, but said much work remains to breathe life into the sputtering economy...
Let's see. The Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, along with their sidekick comedy companion, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959, which means it has only taken the Marxist communist trio only 53 years to figure out that what they were doing needed to change. Perhaps Guevara was the lucky one to avoid this horrible five decades old slide into economic oblivion, since he was summarily executed in Bolivia for trying to foment a Marxist communist revolution there too.
Cuban economy czar Marino Murillo told the assembly that the government is planning more measures to support and increase the ranks of independent workers and small business owners.
Real estate broker, delivery person, antiques dealer and produce vendor will all be newly legalized private jobs in a country where the government has long dominated the economy and employed nearly the entire workforce...
Well now, with such forward looking policy, it won't be more than another two or three decades until such time as other occupations such as gardeners, house painters, plumbers and electricians are added to the list of independent workers and small business owners.
Economists have said Cuba needs to expand the number of allowable private enterprises, with an emphasis on white-collar work. Real estate has been a particular concern. Cuba legalized the buying and selling of property 12 months ago, but has yet to allow agents to facilitate transactions.
Some 400,000 people now work in the private sector in 180 legally approved job areas, Prensa Latina said. That's up from 156,000 in late 2010, the onset of Castro's five-year plan to reform the economy with a dash of free-market activity...
Cuba is a perfect example of a Marxist socialist command economy that has taken a once thriving economy and driven it and untold millions of Cubans into the ground in trying to perfect an imperfectable economic theory into practice. As Cuba celebrates its 60 anniversary of the beginning of the glorious revolution in July 2013, we can only hope that Cubans take matters in their own hands to overthrow the communist dictatorship that has held them in virtual bondage since the overthrow of Batista.
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