Alina Fernández Revuelta is dubious about the reforms her uncle Raúl is
instituting in Cuba. "All these changes seem to me to be positive. But,
in fact, life has evolved too little for too few Cubans," Fidel Castro's
daughter Untitled2 told the French-Canadian newspaper La Presse. "If
you're allowed to buy a computer for $500 but you're paid only $10 a
month, that doesn't change anything in your life," she said Sunday,
during a visit to Montreal. "Everything remains to be done. You must
begin [...] by opening the country to all markets [...] by permitting,
at the very least, the creation of small, private enterprises and
allowing foreign investment into the country." When told that Raúl is
considering legalizing "microenterprises," Fernández sounded skeptical.
"The Castro brothers will always surprise you. But I can't predict what
is going through the brain of a 76-year-old person. Perhaps he wants to
make more important changes, but he doesn't have the necessary elbow
room. Perhaps he hopes to turn Cuba into a kind of China of the
Caribbean by pushing economic growth while maintaining the population
under an authoritarian rod. I don't know." What about Fidel's regular
commentaries in the official newspaper Granma? "Raúl doesn't take them
into account and even contradicts them regularly. He's in the process of
starting changes that Fidel would have never tolerated. [Fidel] no
longer counts."
---Renato Pérez Pizarro.
May 06, 2008
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2008/05/fidels-daughter.html
No comments:
Post a Comment