Castro's Confession - IBD - Investors.com:The Left: Fidel Castro stunned the world this week by admitting socialism had failed in Cuba. The implication of the dictator's statement is unclear, but one thing isn't: Castro's sycophants have some explaining to do
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Of course, where they are going to turn if they do so will be problematic. I'm sure that wealthy interests from all over will want to help Cuba build up new industry - tourism in particular - but the strings that people will want to attach to such aid will put Cuba back in the pre-Castro days. It won't matter whether the money men are org crime types or not; the way corporations are run these days, the only difference will be that the new owners will not be connected to any of the traditional types of racketeering.
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- Was/Not Was, "I Feel Better Than James Brown"
I might be as cynical as you (and Don Was) are about this except for the presence of the Cuban-American community. A lot of them just want to go home, so long as home is more free and capitalist than Castro's failed Communism, and I think they won't be eager to see a return of the conditions that made Cuba ripe for revolution in the first place.
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The second wave of immigrants left for different reasons, and may not want to go back.
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