As Babalu readers know, Alberto de la Cruz does a great job posting about human rights violations and so-called "reforms" in Cuba.
Alberto's posts demonstrate that the "reforms" are false and the repression is alive an well.
Speaking of repression, we learned from Alberto's post that "Las Damas de Blanco" were not allowed to honor Laura Pollan's death. Instead, the "Castro thugs" were mobilized to prevent a group of peaceful women from remembering their late friend.
Where is Jay-Z when we really need him? Anybody seen Jesse Jackson lately?
Speaking of reforms, we learned from Alberto's recent post that Cuba is not privatizing its economy:
"Cuba is not turning its state-owned-and-managed property into private property, says economics czar Marino Murillo.Translation: Cuba will continue to be run by "Castro Inc", a family business run by the Castro brothers and their children. This is the same Castro family listed in "Forbes' List of Fortunes Of Kings, Queens And Dictators"!
Addressing Cuba’s National Assembly of Popular Power, the head of the Commission on Implementation and Development of the Guidelines made several important points about the reforms in the nation’s economic structure that are known as “actualization” or updates.
The address was delivered on July 7 but was publicized this week by the official website Cubadebate to coincide with the opening of the First International Congress on Economic Management and Development being held in Havana."
We are so happy that Alberto joined our weekly US-Latin America issues show to talk Cuba.
Fausta Wertz of Fausta's Blog is a regular in our panel. Fausta has great coverage of Cuba stories, as well as her wonderful "Carnival of Latin America' every Monday.
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