Vicente Loot Madrid, April 13, 2011
Fifty-two years after coming to power and when they are about to turn 85 and 80, respectively, Fidel and Raul Castro have not yet agreed on the model of society we want to build. On November 17, 2005, in his speech in the auditorium will University of Havana, the Maximum Leader called for "re-socialist society" because the revolution, he said, was in danger of disappearing undermined by corruption. Five years later, in July 2010, Raul Castro, also imbued with a late founding spirit, announced an "upgrade" model, without sacrificing "the least to the construction of socialism." So many years the two brothers have announced that they to build socialism that Cubans often say sarcastically that would save a lot of trouble if they decide to buy it done.
With so many Castro adjustments both in his final hours trying to avoid the mess and go hand in hand at the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, to light a new-old plan of salvation which is entitled "Draft Guidelines for the Economic Policy Social Party and the Revolution. " The Congress, which should have taken place in 2002, five years after the previous one held in 1997, most likely elect Raul Castro as the new first secretary of the Politburo, replacing his brother, who holds the position since the founding of party in 1965. According to the statutes of the PCC, Congress "examines and provides channels for the solution of important problems in the construction of socialism. " But those roads have not always been in the same direction. The disastrous management of the state's economy needed the help of private initiative to return after the starting point once the crisis.
In 1993, after the loss of Soviet subsidies that kept the island afloat, Fidel Castro was forced to accept an unprecedented economic reform after his brother Raul was convinced that "beans are more important than the guns. " Among these reforms, the Commander in Chief reluctantly authorized private job for 115 activities, including mechanic, bricklayer, plumber or a barber. The licenses were granted to artisans. Academics and party leaders were prohibited from self-employment. In 1995 the licenses were extended to 157 offices and cleared some family business such as renting rooms or small restaurants, the famous taste. The new entrepreneurs, some 200,000 in total, had to cope with high taxes and they could not hire employees.
never saw Fidel Castro welcomed the thrust of those who contemptuously called merolicos or self-employed, who had to resort to bribery to circumvent the rigid controls state, and the black market to ensure supplies. For Fidel Castro, that breed of "new rich" was a blur in a supposedly egalitarian communist society. His speeches increasingly aggressive against them finally resulted in the closure of many business and Timbiriche, the stifling tax and indiscriminate withdrawal of licenses.
Two decades later, Raul Castro takes over the rabbit from the hat of self-employment as a panacea for addressing the country's economic crisis. And Fidel Castro walking beside him as his traveling companion, forgotten his anathemas against those who once described as "bandits" and "speculators." The "Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy of the Party and the Revolution" is a new twist to the old sock revolution, another "betrayal" of the egalitarian principles of state capitalism that Fidel Castro imposed on the Cuban people. Again
artisans will be the striker to prevent the revolution from sinking. Yesterday the unauthorized trades were 157 and today 178. Thousands of Cubans have applied for licenses to work in the most varied professions. The revolution was proud to give all Cubans college, now offers the possibility of a better life working as cobblers. The monthly salary of a doctor or an engineer is less than 15 euros per month, while a hairdresser can quintupled and also have paid employees, although they euphemistically call "contract workers requested by the self-employed to work with them."
If, Ilya Erenburg, Spain was a "republic of workers," Cuba is poised to become a republic of artisans. The state retains ownership of the means of production, but licenses to work in a thousand and one offices, but without the right to exercise other professions. It is a return to "embryonic capitalism", as defined pejoratively Fidel Castro. Cubans say sarcastically that the tourists are offered the prostitutes (sex workers) more educated on the planet and it reads now also for the artisans. Output is provided by Castro after half a century of revolution. It's what they call "update" the economic model. And just left them take the second star to the right, flying until dawn to get to Neverland.
Source: http://www.infolatam.com/2011/04/13/cuba-republica-de-menestrales/
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