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| Fidel Castro criticized Cuba's state-dominated system. Photograph: Desmond Boylan/Reuters |
Fidel Castro criticized Cuba's state-dominated system.
"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more," said Former Cuban Dictator Fidel Castro in an interview.[1]
His brother, Raul Castro, has said that "Cuba cannot blame the decades-old US embargo for all its economic ills and that serious reforms are needed."[2]
According Rory Carroll in The Guardian, Raul Castro has also said:
With infrastructure crumbling, food shortages acute and an average monthly salary of just $25 (£16), it has become apparent that near-total state control of the economy does not work.[2]
And yet, the Castro brothers have spent 56 years scapegoating the US for their failed system. The Cuban government's propaganda is very effective. Most Cubans now view the US as a perpetrator of genocide. You see signs like this all over Cuba:
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| A billboard in Cuba reads, “Blockade. The longest genocide in history.” Official Cuban propaganda in Havana streets.[3] |
A writer for the Havana Times (a Cuban propaganda machine much like our New York Times) describes the US Embargo of Cuba as genocidal:
"...genocidal economic, commercial and financial blockade that has been in place now for more than half a century."[4]
Ironically, the US is the top supplier of food and agricultural products to Cuba.[5] We've also been sending medicine, medical devices, clothes, and more, for years.[6]
As Cuban human rights activist Antúnez said:
With or without U.S. money flowing into Cuba, the citizens will remain poor because the government is only concerned with lining its own pockets.[7]
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