Fidel Castro has announced his resignation as president of Cuba and his brother Raul, who is currently standing in as president, is expected to be “elected” as his permanent replacement.
The BBC has been gushing about Comrade Castro all day. He introduced free medical care for all and literacy rates are comparable with any western nation. Which is nice. He also introduced abitary arrest and imprisonment and destroyed the Cuban economy. Which isn’t quite so nice if you live in Cuba. Even his own daughter lives in exile in Miami saying that it’s preferable to living under her father’s dictatorial rule.
Castro has done some good stuff and some bad stuff. Unfortunately, the bad stuff is really quite bad. Communism just doesn’t work, the same patterns repeat themselves under every communist regime. Cuba is much better off without Castro just as long as they get someone half decent in exchange.
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One of his daughters lives in Miami. For which I am sure she is generously rewarded…
No one within the Cuban government has ever claimed Cuba has a communist economy – such a thing would be impossible, especially under a blockade and since the loss of many trading partners in the early nineties.
Though the only legal party is indeed the Communist Party, it has no role in the electoral process – unlike in former socialist states in central and eastern europe where candidates were nominated by the party.