Is an operation underway in Cuba to displace an entire sector of Castroism, deemed too ideological, and promote a more business-friendly system headed by the military?
'Raúl Castro's family controls GAESA parcel delivery, and tourism, while those of Guillermo García Frías and Juan Almeida Bosque run the agri-food business and the monopoly on imports. The Miguel Díaz-Canel and Manuel Marrero tandem, wallowing in tourism dividends, is raking it in.'
'We could say that for every 100 lines that Cubans stand in, 99 are the Yankees' fault; for every 100 hours without electricity, they'd only suffer one if it weren't for Washington's villainy'
After 65 years of subsidizing a disaster, the new plan is to… subsidize more! Now it is called a 'special financing scheme.' The case of Suchel Camacho.
Those who want a free Cuba must embrace and sustain the black market, just as those who want a subjugated country fear and seek to destroy it by eliminating what makes it possible: cash.
Far from what some members of the Democratic Party believe, the abrupt increase in Cuban migration is driven by Castroism, and has nothing to do with the embargo.
Vietnam constitutes a case study in the importance of developing a reliable country characterized by economic freedom. A similar experiment by Castroism, however, could prove costly for Cubans.