Cuba is undergoing its biggest economic transformation in decades: private firms are back and small businesses employ a quarter of the workforce. But market reform has brought no political opening.
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The Castro-Communist regime has begun to implement part of the 176 economic and social measures. They are, above all, survival measures. The mechanism reminds pigs of George Orwell’s “Rebellion on the Farm.” Rules change according to the needs of those who govern. What was counterrevolutionary yesterday becomes indispensable today. What was condemned as capitalist exploitation appears tomorrow as a tool to strengthen socialism. Reforms are the c…