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How Far Will The Communist Government In Cuba Go In Giving Its People Freedoms?
On Monday, the Tourism Ministry in Cuba announced that any Cuban with enough money can now stay in luxury hotels and rent cars, doing away with restrictions that made ordinary people feel like second-class citizens. And last week, Cuba said citizens will be able to get cell phones legally in their own names, a luxury long reserved for the lucky few. Cubans snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time Tuesday as Raul Castro's new government loosened controls on consumer goods and invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land.
Yam---They have to walk before they can run. I'm happy for this positive start.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Not very far. The average Cuban earns only $20 per month, can't afford hotels and can't afford a cell phone. Those who were able to buy them have received dinero from relatives in the States. Once you extend liberty to oppressed peoples, they will go all the way for complete freedom. Look at what happened in the USSR when Gorbachev introduced "glasnost" and "perestroika." Everybody went wild and demanded freedom, as seen in the republics of Russia, as seen in Eastern Europe, as seen in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Don't let Raul's new freedoms fool you. The Cuban people are still oppressed and always will be under a Marxist-Socialist regime.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Raul Castro "invited private farmers to plant tobacco, coffee and other crops on unused state land."
This is very telling. A large percentage of land (51%) in Cuba lies fallow while people do not have enough to eat. Now they are given the "freedom" to farm this land? And I suppose they should be grateful for that?
DÃos mÃos!
- 1 decade ago
When you give people minimal freedoms when they are used to none, you will have a happy public who supports a government..even a communist one
- 1 decade ago
Being able to buy things isn't much freedom.
Are they able to speak out against the government yet?
