This has been obvious to 99% of the people on the planet for a long time.
Welcome to reality Fidel...
It was a casual remark over a lunch of salad, fish and red wine but
future historians are likely to parse and ponder every word: "The Cuban
model doesn't even work for us any more."
Fidel Castro's
nine-word confession, dropped into conversation with a visiting US
journalist and policy analyst, undercuts half a century of thundering
revolutionary certitude about Cuban socialism.
That the island's
economy is a disaster is hardly news but that the micro-managing
"maximum leader" would so breezily acknowledge it has astonished
observers.
Towards the end of a long, relaxed lunch in Havana,
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine,
asked Castro if Cuba's economic system was still worth exporting. The reply left him dumbfounded. "Did the leader of the revolution just say, in essence, 'Never mind'?" Goldberg wrote on his blog.
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