Monday, April 18, 2011

The general clock

Raúl Castro does not care if you take pictures when looking at the clock. There is a very curious where it appears looking at the time while raising the arm with Hugo Chavez. It did the day he convened the Sixth Party Congress in November. A month later, the Cuban president said that the conclave "must be, by law of life, the last of most of us in the Generation History (the case of put the media)." He added: "The time remaining is short, the task gigantic." Time.

That is one of the two great enemies of Raul Castro. The other is played by the seven-headed monster gained by the Revolution, the failures and mistakes of the past that the president takes in part now, before the abyss of a possible shipwreck economic inefficiency, as a corollary of the absence of tissue productive network unsustainable subsidies and social security, with the veteran revolutionaries and humble at the head of the victims, corruption and theft as a way of life of hundreds of thousands of citizens, in some cases to survive and others to profiting; rule of a bureaucracy ready to fight any progress that threatens their privileges, lack of civil liberties and true rule of law, excessive reliance on friendly countries ...

And all of them among the embers of Stalinism still blazing tropical fueled by the "Taliban "or, in private speech by Raul Castro," Jacobins "of the party: those who until recently spared him the title of president to continue calling him" General of the Armies "that kept the same Fidel as" Commander in Chief " when it was not and as first secretary when he said it no longer carried.

Not only is exhausted model of Cuban socialism. Also personal. At this point, parades such as the 50 th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs excite few and not inflame hardly anyone beyond the intrigue professionals imperialist and cut and paste the revolutionary ephemeris. Less war stories and more prosperous, that's what I want most of the Cubans, as we have seen in recent years.

It is in this context that Raúl Castro, with his rationality in favor but with the clock and against friendly fire, is preparing to seek the death certificate PC of utopia, to redefine and bolster the economic reforms that in fact undertook a couple of years. The lean and bittersweet results achieved to date may well serve to sell new changes.

Developments such as the legalization of the sale of homes and cars (with limits), the approval of tourism projects with foreign participation, decentralization of institutions, the recognition of corporate autonomy, a major legislative review and a reduction in weight and power the PC in favor of the military are in the oven of the plans.

But would it be enough? Inside and outside are legion who doubt. Ask for more wings to foreign investment, more facilities for social reconciliation and economic exile, more connection to the Internet, find it easier to leave the country. More And Fidel leave the party leadership, both given.

He is still there, said. And that does have its importance.

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