Friday, September 24 2010
By Bob Barr | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cuba’s economy remains a basket case; a fact recognized publicly, if only indirectly, earlier this month when President Raul Castro authorized the country’s official labor union to lay off more than 500,000 state workers between now and next March. Cuba is the only overtly communist country in the western hemisphere; and its leaders — Raul and his older brother Fidel — have ruled the country with an iron fist since the 1959 revolution ensconced them in power. The country always has prided itself on standing up to the “evil” capitalist system personified by the United States. For either of the Castro brothers to make even a tacit admission that their beloved communism has failed, is a major concession.
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