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Caribbean-Latin America
Pres. Trump Defeats Castro Communists: Cuba Set to Open Up Its Economy
2021-02-09
[PJ] Well, I did not see this coming. The BBC reports that Cuba is about to open up most of its economy to private ownership.

Cuba!

Cuba has announced it will allow private businesses to operate in most sectors, in what is a major reform to its state-controlled economy.

"...major reform..."? It’s the communists admitting defeat. Because:

The communist country’s economy has been hit hard by the pandemic and US sanctions introduced by the Trump administration.

Last year its economy shrank by 11% — its worst decline in almost three decades — and Cubans have been facing shortages of basic goods.

Well, we did have toilet paper shortages here, but that was mainly because people panic-hoarded when they didn’t need to. It wasn’t due to decades of abusive state policy.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Cuba trades communism for fascism. That's the optimistic scenario.
Posted by: Zorba Lumplump1243   2021-02-09 15:54  

#9  In a related Har Har moment:
Remember the entertainer Bulldog? Called for El Chapo to go get President Trump because that was the fashion (decapitation chic, beer & chips salesman's assassination video, murder theater in the park).

Apparently he is a bit hesitant about the new administration, his family teaching him this is exactly how things went before they had to flee Cuba.

Har har.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-02-09 15:41  

#8  "Cuba is about to open up most of its economy to private ownership"

Forgot to read the fine print? 99% taxes.
Posted by: European Conservative   2021-02-09 15:35  

#7   Example application of the periwinkle CLUEBAT

*blush*
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-09 15:11  

#6  Biden administration will send Kerry down there to urge them not to be so hasty.
Posted by: KBK   2021-02-09 14:59  

#5  Example application of the periwinkle CLUEBAT
Posted by: Angease Barnsmell8442   2021-02-09 13:14  

#4  The Long Embargo also reminded others that US threats were (sometimes) enforced.
Posted by: magpie   2021-02-09 13:10  

#3  Thanks to that embargo, Clem, Cuba had enough serious problems that they chose not to host nuclear missiles pointed at us for two solid generations. I’d put that in the Win column for us and embargoes.

After all, they would have oppressed their people in the usual stupidly oppressive totalitarian way regardless, so their people would not have suffered any less without the embargo. See North Korea for an example of what that looks like.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-02-09 13:01  

#2  You mean after 60 years of an embargo, the US of A can claim victory?!? Wow wow wow.
Posted by: Clem   2021-02-09 12:27  

#1  Big Bidet* misministration aid package to prop up communism in 3-2-1...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-02-09 11:44  

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