50 years ago, my parents were getting dressed up to go welcome the new year of 1959.
Like most Cubans, they were optimistic about the future.
To say the least, there were no Cubans desperately trying to swim over to the US. There were no lines outside foreign embassies looking for any loophole to get out of the country. (Cubans clamor for Spanish passports)
IBD has a great editorial today called Communist Cuba: 50 Years Of Failure:
"New Year's Day marks 50 years of communist rule in Cuba. The Castro oligarchy will trumpet its survival and celebrate.
But the reality, up close, is that it's the longest-running failure in the New World.
Spare us the fireworks and media-parroted claims of Fidel Castro's dictatorship bringing universal health care and education to Cuba.
The real story is that a prosperous Cuba was turned into ruins in just five decades."
Also, spare me the "blame the US" message, too! Spare me the "blame the US embargo" nonsense. Cuba can do business with any country in the world. The US embargo has not stopped the EU, Canada or Mexico from doing business with Cuba. What's the problem? Read on:
""It's a major failure," Carmelo Mesa-Lago, a University of Pittsburgh economist, told IBD.
"Cuba is unable to increase food production to meet its needs and now imports 84% of its food.
Cuba produced 7 million tons of sugar in 1952.
This year, it's 1.5 million tons.
This is the result of economic policy of collectivization, killing of individual incentive, inefficiency, constant changes of policy."
50 years of lies, corruption and economic failure.
1 comment:
I have always believed that Cuba has made economic realtionships with countries around the world, including the United States. I do not believe that Fidel Castro is so lucky, to not have been assasinated, in fifty years, by his enemies or in reality, his associates.
American born, with Cuban parents, I have always heard the horror stories and disbelief, on how such a terror, can maintain and continue to live so long. And my answer has and will always be, ECONOMICS.
Post a Comment