[RayChuang88]

There's a reason why China went on a capitalist economic reform starting in 1979--Deng Xiaopeng and Chinese political leaders of his generation saw firsthand the misguided Communist economic policies that caused the horrors of the Great Leap Forward between 1958 and 1963 and were determined to get away from that debacle.

This is why I think once the Castro brothers leave the political scene from Cuba, you will see Cuba turn into Western Hemisphere equivalent of China--probably within ten years! The Cubans very well know that they are sitting on a gigantic economic gold mine and they're not going squander that potential.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’m not sure another dictator won’t take Castro’s place.