Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Doesn’t Work

Yep.

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.

The fact that things are not working efficiently on this cash-strapped Caribbean island is hardly news. Fidel’s brother Raul, the country’s president, has said the same thing repeatedly. But the blunt assessment by the father of Cuba’s 1959 revolution is sure to raise eyebrows.

Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, asked if Cuba’s economic system was still worth exporting to other countries, and Castro replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.

(10) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2224 hrs
Economy + Foreign Affairs

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    Posted by coach outlet on September 09, 2010 at 0406 hrs


  2. The journalist must have been emotionally crushed. Imagine finding out that everything your professors had told you was a lie.

    Perhaps after 50 years of depression and unemployment, our liberals might come to that conclusion as well.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2010 at 0859 hrs


  3. I guess what is funny is that it took him 60 years to figure it out. Funny, but tragic.

    Sixty years of oppression and misery.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2010 at 0907 hrs


  4. This is news?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2010 at 1331 hrs


  5. How long do you think, before liberals will figure out their ideas don’t work either?

    Posted by Dan on September 09, 2010 at 1824 hrs


  6. When they run out of other people’s money, and not a dollar before, Dan.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2010 at 1857 hrs


  7. The journalist must have been emotionally crushed. Imagine finding out that everything your professors had told you was a lie.

    As a journalist and 20-year veteran of the media business, I guess I missed the part where my professors and colleagues told me everything was just peachy in Cuba. Although my buddy had a hell of a bachelor party there a couple years ago.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 09, 2010 at 2034 hrs


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