By Benjamin Noria
HAVANA TIMES – Reform means fixing or improving something that is wrong, unsatisfactory, or affected by corruption and malpractice. Reform is different from Revolution, which is a radical change. A reform seeks to improve the system in question, while continuing with it; meanwhile, radical groups try to promote total and extreme changes when they seek changes in a system, by overthrowing the government and the ruling elite in charge.
Perhaps many naive realists in Cuba can’t believe that the Government has known, for years now, what the solution is to fix economic matters on the island. The thing is, though, none of these solutions are in their best interests, since they would mean losing their privileges. They hold onto the discourse that the Revolution and socialism are the only path towards victory.
Ever since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Cuban Government has been improvising measures to revive the economy and has copied