France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL-Reims) -
Cuba libertarian (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
One of the most important news of the end of 2014 was the simultaneous appearance of
Barack Obama and Raul Castro on television screens in the United States and Cuba, to
announce "urbi et orbi" thaw relations between the two governments. ---- While no one
could imagine that such actions may occur, the two presidents have organized this event
Wednesday, December 17 from the capitals of their respective countries, launching the
first step towards normalization of their public relations after 53 years "Cold War" and
"economic blockade". ---- As we know, this "gesture" is the result of lengthy negotiations
that were started in 2012 by two officials (Ricardo Zuniga, for the United States,
Josefina Vidal, Cuba) negotiations held in the greatest secrecy order to "reconcile the
positions" on issues that each government considers "essential."
Although also helped that Raul Castro, after replacing his brother Fidel, began to
implement a series of changes in an economy that until then was part of the dogma
"socialist" in force on the island, a dogma that was untouchable. Changes to advance to
the transformation of "socialism" (state capitalism) into a market capitalism.
It is normal that all supporters of this system - the island and outside it - are excited
by this prospect and that concerns are expressed only in sectors within and outside of
Cuba denounced the restoration of capitalist exploitation by a government that continues
to claim to revolutionary and socialist. These sectors are anxious to see the helplessness
in which Cuban workers are currently, impotence which will worsen with the alliance that
is in between the party-state unions and the private capital.
Excerpt from the editorial in Cuba Libertaria 30
http://oclibertaire.free.fr/spip.php?article1637
