Order
Discipline
Obedience
Posted on 11/03/2013 11:10:07 AM PST by Signalman
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba closed dozens of home-based movie theaters on Saturday and reaffirmed its plans to end the private sale of imported goods as communist authorities pressed for "order, discipline and obedience" in the growing small business sector.
A government statement issued through official media said home-based theaters and video games will "stop immediately in any type of self employment," a local euphemism for small business.
The statement said "the showing of movies, including in 3D salons, and likewise the organization of computer games, has never been authorized."
The government banned the private sale of imported goods last month, a measure that potentially affects some 20,000 small businesses and their employees who sell clothing, hardware and other goods brought in informally by travelers, some of whom visit the Caribbean island regularly carrying merchandise from the United States, Spain and Latin American countries.
President Raul Castro, who replaced his brother Fidel in 2008, has instituted a series of market-oriented reforms to Cuba's Soviet style economy where the state still employs 79 percent of the 5 million-strong labor force.
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Yea, we're seeing that happen in the USA as well.
True enough for those considered to be Obama’s enemies which in the case of ObamaCare would seem to be 99% of US citizens.
-— home theaters with better quality than the state theaters -—
I visited Poland a year after the wall fell. State run TV ran images of Vietnamese harvesting rice. On another station I saw tropical fish.
The local cinema looked like a run down office building. The sign, which imaginatively read, “cinema,” was made from 3/8 in steel, carved with an arc welder, and painted black. It was propped up on the roof.
Oh it is not quite all one way. Lot’s of academics
and other left wing types still view Cuba as a paradise.
I don’t see them going over there to live.....talk is cheap.
Exactly!! But they certainly sing praises to Cuba under the Castro brothers upon their return. But you are right they don’t stay long and when they are there are probably on guided tours and so forth.
Because they see the “Potemkin Village” version of Cuba.
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