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Raúl and Fidel Castro |
Let's hope.
The Times continued - The new policy, promised by President Raúl Castro last year, and finally announced in the Communist Party newspaper, linked in my previous Cuban essay. The Times states this - represents the latest significant step by the Cuban government to answer demands for change from Cubans, while also maintaining a significant measure of control. Cubans can be denied the right to leave for reasons of “defense and national security,” according to the new law, suggesting that dissidents will face the same restrictions as always.
In other words, the tactic is speculated to be calculated to turn everyone into happy campers.

So Cuba's doctors still won't profit on one of the best national investments Cuba ever made. Of course once a medical industrial complex is established to further properly siphon the doctor's wealth, then maybe. Like Korea, it seems the entrenched elite is waiting to be bribed. While the doctors must represent the façade of the country's opposition to anti-capitalist exploitation.

Under government private property restrictions, nder a court system by and for an entrenched elite, basically.
The Times cites that - Analysts say the government is encouraging more Cubans to travel so that they can go earn money elsewhere and return, injecting capital into the island’s moribund economy.

Or how welcoming Cuba is to be back in. Remember what Stalin did to his fighters for the Motherland? Destroyed the tainted by foreign influence. No doubt Cuba would paint the picture differently. But they have yet to show a real desire to grow beyond an arbitrary system of tyrants who no doubt smile as sweetly as Stalin himself could.
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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin |

One step forward, two back, yet.
As The Times reports - Especially in Havana, many Cubans have remained skeptical about President Castro’s commitment to change, noting frequently that celebrated new laws, allowing property sales and entrepreneurship, for example, were later larded with restrictions and taxes that so far have ensured only minority participation.

Mars? So far the only remotely near locale that just requires billions of dollars (of influence) for anyone to visit.
As The Times points out further from the previous quotes' colleague, Maricel, 44, who is eligible for a Spanish passport because her grandparents were from Spain. “Sure, I can go but where am I going to get the money?” After all, the new law says nothing about reducing the fees for all the paperwork needed for a departure, which can cost hundreds of dollars.

So, as The Times reports - American officials said they were still studying the new policy to determine what the impact might be. Plus explaining - why America?
And finally, The Times concludes - Other experts said that leaving Cuba, even without the exit visa requirement, could become more difficult than expected. Ted Henken, a Latin American Studies professor at Baruch College, part of the City University of New York, said, “There’s an old saying among migration scholars who studied the Soviet bloc. ‘When the Soviets finally lowered the iron curtain, the West responded not with open arms but by quickly constructing a steel ring around their countries.’ It’s easy to condemn Cuba for its policies against the free flow of people, but when Cuba removes its own restrictions, will we redouble our own?”
So there. A world without borders is not what security is? What would John Lennon think? Possibly, let my people go?
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