Castro Era Ends

Well lets hope he can turn it back then. Cuba is pretty cool, the more I read about it.

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Correct.

He looks dashing. No homo.

How do you explain this?

Fast-growing Cuban cooperative says government ordered it to close
reuters.com/article/us-cuba-economy/fast-growing-cuban-cooperative-says-government-ordered-it-to-close-idUSKBN1AL03A

Why did they close it? Is it because they would rather liberalize Cuba into a mix of neoclassical captalism and state capitalism like Russia and China did?

Read the article carefully. Cooperatives are basically businesses and act outside the of the planned economy. They are not SoE. This step is rather illiberal, but of course we can't say if that's an indicator for theil future.

Sounds like a scam.

Yep.

Not really, if you go to Cuba and check out the local businesses a large majority of these places don't have paperwork for anything, transactions are just made by a simple monetary exchange. For example, in the state run markets paying with a $50 CUC bill for your stuff forces the cashier to whip out a book, take down your ID (Passport in my case) and the serial number for the bill because that's the law. But where I go to actually exchange USD to CUC is actually a guy I know who owns a photography business in town and we exchange money at 98%, obviously off the record. Same goes for these mom and pop shops that have to deal with large bills.

And even if they followed the law all these records are printed on rinky dinky recycled paper. Most official documents are printed on thin matrix printer paper, and there's a hell of a lot of it too. I'm sure anyone that has at least an above water business there does so too, so an accounting business that helps manage that isn't really out of the question.

He said that he wants to strenghten Democratic Socialism, the Party and the planned economy I would say he is a good Marxist-Leninist