Capitalism the only cure for a Cuba suffering from the oppression of communism and the poverty of socialism

 by Alberto de la Cruz

A very informative and interesting read from Roberto Alvarez Quiñones on despite the hatred for capitalism harbored by Cuba’s communist Castro dictatorship, the Cuban people know only capitalism will lift them out of the oppression of communism and the poverty of socialism.

Via Diario de Cuba:

Castroism: from capitalism to capitalism

A few days ago Raúl Castro’s regime revealed that the private sector on the island already employs 1.3 million workers, and that of 4.47 million people employed in the country, more than three million have state jobs.

In other words, today workers not tied to the state already represent 29% of the nation’s active work force. The country’s working physiognomy has moved in the right direction, despite absurd obstacles, legal prohibitions, exorbitant taxes and fines, physical repression and even jail time.

The mistreated Cuban private sector consists of almost 600,000 people with permits to work on their own, who, in turn, employ another 700,000 people.

What Díaz-Canel’s government should do is conduct a study of how much more efficient and productive these private workers are compared to those in the state sector, and to include in this study private agricultural workers in comparison with state ones. Then it should present the results, with proposals for more economic freedom, at meetings of the Political Bureau, Council of Ministers and the Council of State.

This would mean a new perestroika. Of course, because the top leaders of the regime are counterrevolutionary, and backward, they would demand the dismissal of the new president, and his imprisonment. It is that simple. We should recall that the Castro gerontocracy’s hostility to the free market reaches such ridiculous heights that it even refuses to call the private sector by its name, instead referring to it as “non-state”.

But this comparative mental exercise (market/state) is not entirely useless, as it serves for one to appreciate what pathological misanthropes the dictator, his military junta and all the nomenklatura are.

Private workers produce 90% of the food

They know that non-state agricultural workers, co-op members and those who work independently on leased state lands – and not copies of the USSR’s sovjoses – produce almost 90% of what the population consumes; this, according to the National Statistics Office (ONEI).

Private agricultural laborers, according to the ANAP, produce 70% of the milk, 85% of the pork, and 68% of the country’s foodstuffs. And they harvest 92% of its tobacco, one of the country’s four main exports.

A report by Mundubat, a non-governmental development aid organization (NGDO) based in the Basque Country and linked to Cuban institutions, unveiled something equally amazing: 57% of the food produced in Cuba is squandered before reaching the consumer: 30% is lost in the harvest and post-harvest, and the other 27% during distribution to markets.

Despite private workers’ overwhelming productive superiority and greater efficiency, relative to the state, the ruling elite refuses to allow the economic freedom that would liberate Cubans from the tragic poverty in which they live.

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