Question of the day : In 1998 Pope John Paul II visited Cuba, prompting outsiders to await a political opening of the kind that brought down communism in his native Poland. Sadly, even two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cuba remains one of the handful of countries around the world where communism lives on. Illness forced Fidel Castro to step down in 2006, but his slightly younger brother, Rail, is in charge, flanked by a cohort of elderly Stalinists. _____________________ (A) Sceptics will note that Fidel Castro opened up the islands economy a little in the early 1990s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of its subsidies, only to stop when he found a new benefactor in Venezuelas Hugo Chavez. (B) No active dissent in one-party rule is allowed: dozens of opponents of the regime are arrested ahead of any dignitarys visit. (C) When a pope next visits the island, expectations will be more muted. (D) Yet a momentous change has begun in Cuba in the meantime: The country has started on the road towards capitalism; and that will have big implications for the United States and the rest of Latin America. Stay Connected....:)
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:36:23 +0000
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