Fidel Castro afirma: "el modelo cubano no nos sirve ni a nosotros"



El ex presidente cubano Fidel Castro consideró que el modelo económico en su país "no sirve más" ni siquiera para la isla, en la segunda entrega de una entrevista a la revista estadounidense The Atlantic.

"El modelo cubano no nos sirve ni a nosotros", señaló el líder cubano, quien el pasado 13 de agosto cumplió 84 años y reapareció a primeros de julio en la vida pública tras cuatro años de convalecencia por una grave enfermedad que le obligó a delegar la Presidencia de Cuba en su hermano Raúl.

El periodista Jeffrey Goldberg, corresponsal de The Atlantic, cuenta sobre la extensa entrevista que realizó a Castro, que tuvo dudas sobre si escuchó bien al líder cubano, por lo que consultó a Julia Sweig, analista del Consejo de Relaciones Exteriores, quien lo acompañó en su encuentro con el ex presidente.

Según Goldberg, Sweig matizó que Castro con sus declaraciones "no estaba rechazando las ideas de la Revolución. Lo tomé como un reconocimiento de que bajo 'el modelo cubano', el Estado tiene un papel demasiado grande en la vida económica del país".

El periodista considera que un posible efecto de ese sentimiento sería crear un espacio para que el actual presidente cubano y hermano de Fidel, Raúl Castro, ponga en marcha "las reformas necesarias frente a la resistencia que con seguridad vendrá de los comunistas ortodoxos dentro del Partido y la burocracia".

El pasado 1 de agosto, Raúl Castro anunció la ampliación del trabajo por cuenta propia en la isla y la reducción progresiva de las plantillas estatales, medidas que calificó de "cambio estructural y de concepto".

Ese mismo día, el presidente cubano aprovechó para comentar la situación de la economía cubana, en un tono bastante menos pesimista que en otras ocasiones y calificó de "alentadores" los resultados en el primer semestre de 2010.

Por otro lado, Fidel Castro pidió al presidente iraní, Mahmud Ahmadineyad, que "deje de difamar a los judíos", en la primera entrega de la entrevista que ayer publicó la revista estadounidense.

Castro dijo que el Gobierno iraní debe entender las consecuencias de la teología antisemita "que empezó hace dos mil años".

"Yo no creo que nadie haya sido más injuriado que los judíos. Diría que mucho más que los musulmanes", agregó el ex mandatario cubano.

Finalmente, Goldberg explicó hoy que, al principio, su interés principal era ver comer a Castro, y pudo constatar que el ex gobernante "ingirió pequeñas cantidades de pescado y ensalada, mucho pan mojado en aceite de oliva, así como una copa de vino tinto”.

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An American financed 5th. column has fouled up the system.
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It wont be long now ! soon we will be selling our beads and trinkets in Havana ......The "Old Turd " is going down the crapper .....The sound you will hear will be the flush

Cuban model 'doesn't even work for us any more': Fidel
(AFP) – 2 hours ago

WASHINGTON — Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro has joked that the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more," the Atlantic magazine reported Wednesday.

Meeting with a reporter from the US magazine, the 84-year-old former Cuban president who remains head of the ruling Communist Party, appeared well on the mend after his near-fatal gastrointestinal crisis in 2006, the report said.

Since then, under President Raul Castro, 79, Cuba's feeble economy has been propped up by subsidized oil from ally Venezuela. The government has launched minor reforms but no major structural change in an economy overwhelmingly controlled by the state.

Castro lunched on "small amounts of fish and salad, and quite a bit of bread dipped in olive oil, as well as a glass of red wine," the report said.

When asked if he believed Cuba's model was something worth exporting, Castro left his reporter guest slackjawed, the report said.

"The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more," Fidel Castro was quoted as saying in the report.

Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Council on Foreign Relations who was present at the meeting was quoted as saying Castro "wasn't rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgement that under 'the Cuban model' the state has much too big a role in the economic life of the country."

In the same interview, the former Cuban president criticized Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and said Tehran should acknowledge Israel's fears for its own survival.

Castro, who was at the center of the 1962 missile crisis pitting the Soviet Union against the United States, warned, however, that US sanctions and Israeli threats would not cause Iran to change course.

"This problem is not going to get resolved, because the Iranians are not going to back down in the face of threats. That's my opinion," he said, observing that religious leaders were less apt to compromise.

"The Iranian capacity to inflict damage is not appreciated," he said. "Men think they can control themselves but (US President Barack) Obama could overreact and a gradual escalation could become a nuclear war."

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Olive oil . ....try to imagine how many Cubans living in Cuba even have the faintest idea of what olive oil tastes like or even is .....it wont be long now ....The nightmare is almost over ...Just dont wake up screaming
Quote....." Castro lunched on "small amounts of fish and salad, and quite a bit of bread dipped in olive oil, as well as a glass of red wine," the report said.

Only 50 years too late.

I think Fidel is getting ready to go. Confessions have become something he is doing a lot lately. Anyways better late than never.

I guess this loser and others like him should eventually burn these t-shirts.

There will be many of these left on Fidels Grave