Look! Up In The Sky!
HAVANA – Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model doesn’t work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.
The fact that things are not working efficiently on this cash-strapped Caribbean island is hardly news. Fidel’s brother Raul, the country’s president, has said the same thing repeatedly. But the blunt assessment by the father of Cuba’s 1959 revolution is sure to raise eyebrows.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, asked if Cuba’s economic system was still worth exporting to other countries, and Castro replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore*,” Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.
He said Castro made the comment casually over lunch following a long talk about the Middle East, and did not elaborate. The Cuban government had no immediate comment on Goldberg’s account.
[* – Emphasis added by Editor]
Shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!
What’s going on here? First, Comrade Fidel told Mr. Dinner Jacket to lay off the Jews, and now this. He must know something we don’t: 1) He’s about to die, 2) The SHTF is about to occur, or 3) His recent near-death experiences may have shown him a new light on things. Who knows.
Tags: Communism, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro
