To enrich is not glorious but disgusting – The EC Republic

Carlos Alberto Montaner
Miami, United States

The Cuban government has announced a new Constitution. It will be discussed on July 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Nobody expects the docile Parliament, composed of 605 surprisingly tuned badembly members, to generate the least amount of dissonance.

Reintroducing the position of Prime Minister. The president will represent the state. There will be a vice-president. The Prime Minister will be responsible for the management and control of the cabinet government. None of these checks will be by direct vote. In the Parliament, another much smaller and more manageable body, the State Council, will be the one that will propose the "appropriate companions". The goal is to subtract the authority of the president

The Communist Party retains its hegemonic force character of the country and unique center of initiatives. With infinite stubbornness, the Castroite leadership continues to invoke the Marxist-Leninist inspiration of the state and the government. Sixty years of failures have been useless. They did not learn anything.

But the most important element, which they are trying to smuggle, is the incorporation of a disturbing National Defense Council, which would be "a higher organ of the United States." State that runs the country during the war ". exceptional situations and disasters. "

It is not said, but we know, that this institution is headed by Colonel Alejandro Castro Espín, only son of Raúl Castro, and brings together all sources of intelligence and counterintelligence of the country. who is moving will not appear on the photo Perhaps he appears in the red chronicle of Granma, as was the case of General Arnaldo Ochoa and Colonel Tony de la Guardia.They were filmed in 1989. [19659002] The vague definition of the CDN and its probable intervention in exceptional situations function like a real sword of Damocles weighing on all the apparatchiks, starting with that of Miguel Díaz-Canel, the most watched man for the cons – Cuban intelligence

The first existed between 1959 and 1976. During this long period, Fidel Castro was Prime Minister and did what he wanted.No changing the political and economic model of Cubans, Soviet missiles in troduits, which almost led to a world war, triggered African wars and created all kinds of troubles in the middle of the planet supporting the entire anti-Western revolutionary group appeared in Havana

In 76, during the period of sovietization of the island, improperly described as institutionalization, inspired by the Bulgarian Constitution – because it was a small agricultural country with a population similar to the Cuban people – they approached the Soviet formula, but Fidel continued doing what came out of his beard.

The new Constitution announced by the Cuban government is, on the one hand, an adjustment to reality; on the other, a cattery attempt to keep things the same. And for a third, a limit to the authority of the president so that he can not play caudillism, as Fidel and Raúl have done at the time for several decades.

The disappearance of the USSR and the European Socialist camp in the early 1990s left Cuba without subsidies and adrift. The way to deal with this huge storm was to reform the economy to save collectivism. It was then that the contradictory "Castro reform model" began to emerge from Fidel's cage.

Reluctantly, he accepts the least private companies, investments and independent workers that would allow him to survive his regime. At that time, he admitted to dollarization, but when the storm pbaded and Chávez came to power, he kept the Venezuelan tit with an orphan voracity until he could revoke it. measurement.

The question was whether Raúl Castro prepared, would try to join the Chinese model, Vietnamese, or if it would remain in the coordinates of the Castro model. There is more room for the hope of economic change. (There have never been any political changes). The reforms aim to maintain the fundamental productive apparatus in the hands of the state.

In summary: the activities of self-employed workers and access to private property are more restricted. Cubans living abroad are not welcome in the reforms. The goal is to prevent at any cost that Cubans become rich. Socialism is built without subsidies and capitalism without incentive. The worst of both worlds. Raúl Castro does not believe in Deng Xiaoping's key phrase: "to enrich is glorious". Keep thinking that it's disgusting. Less for him and his family, of course.