How radical will the changes be?(changes in Cuba)

The word 'market', demonized for decades in official Cuban circles, has reappeared, but there was another word that was reintroduced and mentioned more times: 'change'. How radical and profound will the changes be? Will they affect the economic and social essence of the system, i...

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Published in:New internationalist 2011-07 (444), p.46
Main Author: Fuentes, Leonardo Padura
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Bureaucracy
Castro, Fidel
Castro, Raul
Changes
Decentralization in government
Economic conditions
Government decentralization
Political leadership
Political parties
Politics
Public administration
Reforms
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Summary:The word 'market', demonized for decades in official Cuban circles, has reappeared, but there was another word that was reintroduced and mentioned more times: 'change'. How radical and profound will the changes be? Will they affect the economic and social essence of the system, including aspects that are political? This too remains to be seen, but there can be no doubt that change has arrived and more is coming - not always desired (by certain elements of the government leadership) but always inevitable. I am referring to changes that are subtle but indispensable, including change in the topdown, fundamentalist, exclusionist orthodoxy, which managed to convert into a suspect, if not an enemy, anyone who dissented from official positions and tried to think with their own head as opposed to a logic based on 'the moment', 'the situation of the country', or 'top-down orientation'.
ISSN:0305-9529