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Building a Free Cuba
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--CUBA AFTER CASTRO
Author: Jorge Mas Canosa
Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 3/1/1994
Size: 2,138 Words, 13,971 Characters

In considering the various strategies for Cuba's political, economic, and social renewal, there can really be only one starting point: the removal of Fidel and Raúl Castro from power and the elimination of every vestige of their discredited rule. Any hope for Cuba's successful return to the family of nations depends on a clean break from the past 35 years. vbcrlfSimply put, the Castro brothers are the problem in Cuba and cannot be a part of the solution. Fidel Castro had every opportunity in the past three decades to build a viable socio-economic system but sacrificed all to aggrandize his power. vbcrlfMoreover, when we examine the experiences of countries in the former East bloc that have succeeded in the transition from totalitarian political systems and centralized economies to...

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...-prosperous island bankrupt. vbcrlfRebuilding will perhaps be the greatest challenge ever faced by Cuba. Many choices and recommendations will be offered to the Cuban people after Castro. Experience proves the best alternative is one that includes a true free market in the context of a free society. Yet it will be the choice of the Cuban people to make. I believe they will choose freedom. vbcrlf

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