Posted on 03/30/2016 6:40:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Days after President Barack Obama’s historic visit, the leaders of Cuba’s Communist Party are under highly unusual public criticism from their own ranks for imposing new levels of secrecy on the future of social and economic reforms.
After months of simmering discontent, complaints among party members have become so heated that its official newspaper, Granma, addressed them in a lengthy front-page article Monday. It said the public dissatisfaction over the lack of open discussion before the upcoming Communist Party congress next month is “a sign of the democracy and public participation that are intrinsic characteristics of the socialism that we’re constructing.”
The article did little to calm many party members, some of whom are calling for the gathering to be postponed to allow public debate about the government’s plans to continue market-oriented reforms for Cuba’s centrally controlled economy.
“The base of the party is angry, and rightly so,” party member and noted intellectual Esteban Morales wrote in a blog post published before Obama’s visit. “We’ve gone backward in terms of democracy in the party, because we’ve forgotten about the base, those who are fighting and confronting our problems on a daily basis.” …
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You are so right. What Solzhenitsyn and so many dissenters in the gulags labeled “spectacle!”
The debate: “Should we murder all our political prisoners or imprison them for life?
(Oboomba in Cuba was just a bucket list item checkoff for the Commie Kenyan Homo Usurper and his troop.)
Obama likes the Cuban government just the way it is.
He wishes he had been able to make ours more like Cuba’s.
But he still has 10 months to make his wishes come true.....
...congress next month is “a sign of the democracy and public participation that are intrinsic characteristics of the socialism that we’re constructing.”
The Cuban Communist Party needs to stop sending out these mixed messages, it only confuses the peasants...
Castro brothers, don’t worry, there is no one in a position of leadership anywhere in the western world to exploit any signs of weakness in your dictatorship. You are safe for the time being. In fact, your new friends in Washington and in the American business community value stability. You certainly provide that.
The AP's not much... they're new look is PRNewswire...
"We've gone backward in terms of democracy in the party, because we've forgotten about the base, those who are fighting and confronting our problems on a daily basis."Since Cuba is and has been a dictatorship, the only problems being confronted are with the dictatorship. Nothing has changed, and nothing will until the Castro regime is gone for good and repudiated.
On the other hand in the USSR of late 80s the Central Committee created fake mild dissent movements believing they could still keep them under control and just allow people to vent their general dissatisfaction, but it grew too fast and got out of their hands.
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