Nearer to (his) home, the Tangerine Tyrant has renewed his interest in 'transformation' in Cuba; the CIA director was in Havana yesterday to demand 'fundamental changes' to the regime & the economy of the island.
Given the original driver for the Cuban Revolution was the plight of the island's economy when run for the benefit of US corporations & the mafia, it would be a sad winding back of the clock if the island once again became beholden to a bunch of grifters.
@ChrisMayLA6 Not necessarily. Countries are run for the benefit of the people who live there. Corporations consist of people. If cuba were run for the benefit of corporations, with people on cuba, there is no problem there. Most likely, cuba would fourish as the 51:st state and peoples income and quality of life would massively improve.
I think it is time for the authoritarian communist leaders of cuba to be taken to a US prison, and for the US to take over.
I've met many cubnas in the US
Indeed, I'm sure that is right; but of course there is a selection bias in the Cubans who live in the USA - not by any means necessarily representative of Cubans living on the island - and of course the problem before 1959 was the corporation that effectively ruled over the country were not controlled by Cubans but rather (as would also be likely now) run for the interested of US shareholders.
@ChrisMayLA6 True, but likewise, the cubans that live on the islands, are exposed to propaganda. It's like asking a peasant in the old soviet country side if the soviet union was good, and of course it was, since he was not aware of any other alternatives. So I'd argue, that actually, the best representative of what is best for cuba are the exile cubans.
As for control, does it matter? If the cubans do not control the corporation, but it raises their standard of living, isn't that enough?
Ah yes, fair enough - were would we find an 'objective' Cuban assessment?
As to the rising of the standard of living - if that was the case, that might be acceptable; but experience shows (and indeed this was, as far as I'm aware in Cuba pre-1959), its only a tightly focussed group of allies who benefit while the rest of the population is excluded from the gains (or most of them)
@ChrisMayLA6 Since we are all subjective, I think the best we can do is... a democratic election with _all_ cubans, exile and non-exile? But the problem is how to balance for the fact that the natives are subject to government propaganda.
As for the second question, I think this is more about public mgmt. If you take control (being the government or a corporatoin) and do not share the spoils, you won't be in power for long.
@ChrisMayLA6 who would be very happy if that happened.