YES! This should have been done years ago!
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NO! It does nothing to help the oppressed Cuban people.
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It's just a matter of days, (with the Holidays, perhaps early next year) before the Republicans' corporate overlords reign them in over Cuba.
Do you think Coca Cola hasn't been waiting at the shore to sell in that new market (example applies to nearly every product). And perhaps it'll take a couple of years for capitalism to take hold there, but inevitably, GM will want to replace all those 1959 Chevys with new models....
First, I absolutely agree this should have been done years---decades---ago. The only ones hurt were the Cuban People. Second, I have to agree with Hypnotad. The Corporate overlords have been greedily eyeing Cuba. It's one of the few places on the planet which hasn't been pryed open; closed markets are verbotten in today's global facist world in which multinational corporations operate, just as governments are installed and removed based on their ability to maintain a stable environment to peddle their wares and the public, if they're lucky, are given the illusion of choice at te polls. I just hope Cuba and the Cuban People are prepared for what may be coming their way.
You're both right. Although Cuban state capitalism represented an improvement over the *status quo ante*, it's become a dead end. Resumption of movement toward real socialism requires the reappearance of real class politics, which this development may facilitate.
Yes, Coca Cola, Walmart, McDonald's etc along with American Tourist and chain hotels will move the communist out and cause an upheaval in Cuban society. Hopefully the Cubans will be better off in the long run.