The problem they've got is that they've already opened Pandora's Box. It's not so easy to close it, they will find. The Cuban people are getting tired of this, and it's just a matter of time before they take control, I think.
Castro is in his 80s. It's not clear who his successor will be. In a dictatorship, succession is a problem. There will no doubt be a power struggle. Better to have that power struggle just at the same time they are dealing with the question of whether they will be capitalist or socialist. I suspect that Castro just realized the confluence of those issues with his succession makes the succession question much more difficult. He had previously planned to retire this year. I don't know if that's going to happen, given that he's just made this momentous decision.
I’m sure there is some Cuban bus driver, somewhere, ready and willing to assume power and continue the wonderful Castro ‘revolution.’
Wait, what? They were driving cars made in the 50's and 60's. If they had any kind of prosperity in 1996, they wouldn't have been so bad off.
Don Raul wasn’t getting a big enough share of the payola so he clamped down until the numbers can be rejiggered.
Castro: “All your property r belong to me.”
Capitalism will not be an improvement, unless there is a spiritual conversion to the living God. More money in a corrupt culture means more capacity for trouble.
Wait for the Venezuela oil collapse. Cuba is screwed.
That sounds wonderful!
Too bad our lovely and corrupt Demonrats can’t do the same.
That would be paradise.
its all about control. Every communist learned a lesson from Russia’s collapse - and China’s rise.
go slowly with reform to ensure the party remains in control of everything.
Substitute The Art of the Deal.