On Sep 14, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> In a few years Cuba will be a thoroughly mixed economy - but even this characterization will be deceptive, since it will obscure the trajectory of the country. It's interesting to me that here we have a case of the founding generation of a socialist revolution dismantling their own system. I don't know how anyone's supposed to take such Third World revolutionary projects seriously ever again.
You don't know where this is going. No one does. On the conference call, Sweig said that Cuba paid careful attention to the transitions in Eastern Europe and in Latin America (from military dictatorship to some kind of democracy), and they're going to take it slow and cautious.
Doug