By Benjamin Noria
HAVANA TIMES – In September 2021, I wrote an article for this magazine titled: The Exhaustion of Communist Optimism. Well, if that piece seemed speculative, now we can put it into practice with the new measures that supposedly aim to stimulate the improvement of the Cuban economy.
I wrote that article after the demonstrations on July 11, 2021; however, the economic reforms implemented in January 2021 were also showing their failures. I stated that people did not take to the streets because of blackouts or food shortages but because of the promises that the Cuban government has made during 65 years of revolution and has failed to fulfill.
There is nothing speculative; Communist Party rule in Cuba has been wearing down for many years. The Cuban government has not applied any of the textbook theories of Marxism. They distorted the doctrines of these thinkers and became exploiters, oppressors, absolute monarchs, and supreme priests of the people. Th
