Re: Authoritarian regimes often fear ideological 'contamination' by tourism, but there's little evidence holidaymakers engender democratic values.

Dan Christensen wrote:
On Feb 19, 4:22 pm, PL <pl.nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snipping portions of PL's posting already debunked here, or to lame
to bother with]

like all the stuff you can't refute you mean.

Even Raul Castro has admitted that incentives and support for the
independent farmers is the only way to stimulate food production in Cuba.

[snip]

That doesn't mean they want to implement the disastrous neoliberal
policies
(snip)

They want:
- more room for private initiative
- more land for independent farmers
- more incentives for farmers
- more market elements.

s usual you are even more abusive than the abusers Comrade Dan.
A Stalinist moron in Canada overtaken even by the Stalinist in Cuba.
Must hurt to see Raul siding up against you.
Bit then Fidel already exposed your lies in the past, no?

"in a major address last July dedicated primarily to massive failures in
agriculture, Raul called for "structural and conceptual" change. Given
his past sympathetic references to the laws of supply and demand, his
advocacy of liberalizing economic reforms in the 1990s, and the many
for-profit enterprises his military officers have been encouraged to
run, he probably plans to introduce market incentives in the
countryside. Private farmers are being paid more by the government for
their produce and are receiving tracts of land so that food crops will
be more available in markets. More dramatic innovations in agriculture
are likely to be announced this year."

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=13746


Cuba may accept more foreign investment in
agriculture to try to reduce food imports and revive state lands that
have fallen into disuse, an official at the Foreign Investment and
Cooperation Ministry told Reuters on Thursday.

"We are analyzing how to increase investment in the sector with the goal
of substituting imports," said Anaiza Rodriguez, director of the
Department of Investment Project Evaluation and Management.

Acting Cuban President Raul Castro said in July the state of the
state-dominated sector was unacceptable. Up to 50 percent of arable land
lays fallow even as the cash-strapped country imports some $2 billion in
food products a year.

Raul Castro, who temporarily took over for his ailing older brother
Fidel Castro 16 months ago, said in July that agriculture should be
restructured and new concepts applied but he did not elaborate.

Raul Castro then called for more foreign investment in the country.

Communist-run Cuba has been reluctant to open agriculture up to foreign
investment. There is just one venture in the sector, to grow rice with
Vietnam, according to the ministry.

Rodriguez said Cuba was involved in a total of 233 joint ventures.

"This is a different moment," Rodriguez said when asked if policy was
changing and agriculture would become more investor friendly.

"Food is our biggest import and we have to produce it here," she said,
pointing to Raul Castro's July speech.

Cuba imports hundreds of thousands of tons of rice, soy products, wheat,
corn and other bulk foods annually, around 25 percent from the United
States under a 2000 amendment to the trade embargo that allows
agricultural sales for cash.

Rodriguez said the ministry was looking at proposals from Argentina,
Venezuela and other Latin American as well as European countries to grow
soy and other grains and cereals in Cuba, but would not say when
agreements might be signed. (Editing by Howard Goller)

http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN2020501920071220?sp=true

Last July 26, Raul Castro gave his first major policy speech. He told
folksy stories about milk and farm production that ridiculed the
bureaucracy and low productivity of state agriculture. He stated a need
to examine and expand the practices that work in the agriculture sector,
which would imply an expansion of private farming, where productivity is
highest. He called for increased foreign investment. He called for
"structural changes" which, in Marxist terms, could imply a change in
property relations and a selective shift away from state ownership. He
closed by quoting Fidel, seven years ago: "Revolution is a sense of the
historical moment, it is to change all that must be changed."

Information about Cuba, American policy, and U.S.-Cuba relations from
the Lexington Institute. Philip Peters, Vice President and Director,
Cuba Program.

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=11892

Poor Stalinist, even the Castro's have abandoned you.
Try North Korea, Dan.
There you will truly find your "soul mates".
What a joke you are.

PL
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