Even Fidel Castro Confesses The Disaster Of The Cuban Revolt
The Cuban Revolt happened along with everything else throughout the worldwide economic system. Cuba is already in a state of economic and social disaster meaning the announcement to by March 2011 lay off half one million state workers by the government really upset some people. The “Cuban model” was said by Fidel Castro a 7 days before the announcement to not be working anymore to Jeffery Goldberg, Atlantic reporter. Cuba is considered to be the last communist system left in the world, and numerous people say that the country’s problems won’t get better by simply letting go government workers.
Cuban communist party just leaves its workers
The Cuban government plans to lay off more than half a million public sector workers. The government hopes the economy will grow with this change. In theory, private companies should pick up the workers the government is losing. Cuba isn’t prepared with its government to deal with the changes brought on by the international financial crisis, states the NY Times. It is also recovering from the 2008 hurricanes that came through still. Citizens have rice shortages while sugar crops failed and there is no more tourism. Monday, Cuban Workers’ Central made a statement. This statement agreed that these changes need to happen as quickly as possible as the economy in the country is really bad right now.
Good Luck changing slackers
The Cuban layoffs will initially focus on overpaid, unproductive and undisciplined workers, as outlined by an internal Cuban Communist Party document obtained by the Associated Press. Workers at Cuba’s ministries of sugar, public health, tourism and agriculture could be the first to go. Forming private corporations is what fired workers should do. They are encouraged to do so by the Cuban Workers’ Central. All foreign-run companies and joint ventures will probably be run out by the government to help. Cubans were given a list of three things within the document that will be their weaknesses when it comes to being on their own. These three things are a lack of initiative, little experience and low skill levels.
Cuba kids itself
There is one big concern Cuban experts nevertheless have. This concern is that fired government workers won’t actually be absorbed by the private sector. The Wall Street Journal talked to director of the Institute for Cuban Studies at University of Miami, Jaime Suchlicki, who said that there could be nowhere else for fired workers to go. “They probably will not be absorbed by the private sector because there is no private sector to absorb them,” he said. Some point out that it isn’t easy to just start a business in Cuba. Those who want to do it end up with high taxes, lack of credit and foreign exchange, bans on advertising and government regulations to control them. The government acknowledged this and made a list of “authorized” employment which consists of carpenter, piñata salesman, music teacher and toy repairman.
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New York Times
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Associated Press
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Wall Street Journal
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