"Castro says Cuban model no longer works" by Bloomberg News | September 10, 2010
CARACAS — Fidel Castro’s comment to a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s economic system doesn’t work is the strongest signal yet that the communist island is looking to private enterprise and foreign investment to bolster growth.
Isn't it time to take the sanctions off?
We are only hurting ourselves.
Related: Castro's Wardrobe Deserves Special Attention
Oh, right, when he talks like that.
“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,’’ Castro told journalist Jeffrey Goldberg after being asked whether he believed it was something still worth exporting, according to a post on The Atlantic magazine’s website. Castro didn’t elaborate, Goldberg said.
Goldberg is the same guy getting notorious posts recently in the citizen's media for pushing war with Iran.
Since reentering the public sphere in July following an illness that almost killed him, the 84-year-old former president had focused his comments on international affairs.
Yeah, it is AMAZING how when you GET OLD you get SAPPY!
That you VALUE LIFE so much more!
That you CARE!!
His silence on domestic issues signals he is willing to allow his brother Raul to reduce state control of the economy, said Tomas Bilbao, executive director of the Washington-based Cuba Study Group, which promotes free-market reforms of the Cuban economy.
“These are pragmatic admissions from an idealist,’’ Bilbao said. “Ever since he came back he has stayed away from talking about domestic issues, which in itself is the best thing he can do to support his brother’s running of the country.’’
Raul Castro, 79, has initiated measures to open the economy since being handed power by his brother in 2006. The moves come as the economy suffers its worst slide since the former Soviet Union ended its support in the 1990s, Bilbao said....
The state still controls 90 percent of the economy, paying workers salaries of about $20 a month in addition to free rationed food staples and health care and nearly free housing.
And education.
And they have a hell of a health care system for the income and aid they receive.
Amazing how the AmeriKan MSM never focuses on those last few items, 'eh?
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Now I'm wondering if Castro actually said that or if it was butchered in the reporting, I mean translation.
