In what seems a historic statement, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution leader seems to have more or less explicitly acknowledged the failure of its political model or rather, how they apply in policy, Socialism. Already
previous notes of this Blog (in the context of 50 years of the Cuban revolution) we analyzed the degradation he had suffered such proceeding inevitably and inexorably to change, but with rhythms and speeds of their own, which, of course, upset and leave everyone equally unhappy.
Well, here transcribe part of the press release was reviewed by BBC on the subject:
Former President of Cuba Fidel Castro said in an interview with a U.S. journalist that the model Cuban "does not work anymore."
The claim is made to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, and formed part of the second installment of the conversation, published online. In the first part, the former president criticized the government Iran for Holocaust denial.
Goldberg wrote in his blog that when he asked Castro, 84, if the model of Cuba was still worthy of export to other countries, the former president replied: "The Cuban model no longer works even for us."
Julia Sweig, an expert on issues of Cuba's Council on Foreign Relations in Washington who accompanied Goldberg to Havana, believes Castro's words reflect the recognition that the Cuban state has a large role in life country's economy. According
Sweig, said Goldberg on his blog, Fidel Castro's comment is a possible aid for President Raul Castro, who took office following the retirement of his brother because of health problems in 2008. (...)
During the dialogue, again according to Goldberg, Castro criticized the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial.
On this, said the politician, journalist and analyst Venezuela, Teodoro Petkoff (editor of the newspaper Tal Cual opposition from left to Chávez) under the pseudonym of "Simon Boccanegra" and here transcribe his statement:
seems to be fixing accounts with their own past and the worldFidel Castro
The truth is that Fidel Castro appears to be arranging accounts with their own past and the world.
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His admission of liability that spot in the persecution and repression of homosexuals in the seventies and now the slap on the wrist that Ahmadinejad has publicly, two statements are really stellar.
The Iranian leader has asked "to stop defaming Jews," reminding him that he does not believe that "nobody has been more reviled than the Jews." "For two thousand years Jews have been subjected to terrible persecutions and pogroms." "They were evicted from their land, persecuted and mistreated around the world as those who killed God." "There is nothing that can compare with the Holocaust." It was a direct jaw Ahmadinejad, who has made the denial of the Holocaust one of his workhorses. Fidel
Asked by the journalist if he would tell you that the Iranian president, the old warrior replied bluntly: "If I'm saying this, you can communicate." Coming from whom, these reflections will have to think a lot of people, including some "revolutionaries" around here, who have made a banner of anti-Semitism, reaching up to desecrate one of the synagogues in Caracas. On the other hand, Fidel reiterated its concern about the possibility of nuclear conflict.
Interestingly, implicitly, more responsibility attributed this to the Iranians themselves: "This problem will not resolve because the Iranians are not going to back down from threats." Supports his view that, unlike Cuba, Iran is a "deeply religious" and, he said, "religious leaders are less accepting." And again renewed his hope that Obama will not yield to the temptation to push the nuclear button. If it rains, that it clears.
Later, he apologized saying he had been "misunderstood" and clarified that it was not against his Socialfidelismo (or Castro-) but against capitalism:
Cuban leader Fidel Castro said Friday that his statement that "the Cuban model no longer works even for us" was misinterpreted by the journalist from U.S. magazine The Atlantic, who interviewed him in Havana.
"He expressed no bitterness or worry. I have fun now to see how he interpreted to the letter, and consulted with Julia Sweig, a reporter who accompanied him and developed the theory presented, "said Castro, referring to the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who released the controversial statement Wednesday www.theatlantic.com.
"The reality is that my answer meant the exact opposite of what the two American journalists interpreted the Cuban model," said the former president, in a message read at the presentation of the second part of his autobiography. (...)
The controversial sentence of Fidel Castro was poured when Goldberg asked if the Cuban model was something that was worth even export to former Cuban president said: "The Cuban model no longer works even for us. "
"It is clear that this question implied the theory that Cuba was exporting the revolution," Castro said in his message on Friday.
Fidel Castro's statement, top leader of the Cuban revoluciíon, raised international outcry, but so far unknown because the Cubans were not reproduced in the local media.
That said, the question is who to believe? Fidel What is true? He had earlier had shown that contradiction when in 1959 had "made clear" that he was not a Communist and its revolution Nor, for 3 years come to mean the opposite depsues . Perhaps the real Fidel is the very silent, and keeps to himself, in himself or his closest associates with their real views. Precisely
Petkoff collects a story you trust him, the writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez (great friend of both) on the opinion of Fidel on his own system of government:
Many years later, in Christmas 1997 at his home in Havana, Gabo told me a startling story. He talked a group of senior civil servants with Fidel and Gabo. This made some critical comments on the rules and one of these queer asked what he meant. Who said it was Fidel, " Ga-bo What means is that neither he nor I like the fact we revolution." Can you imagine the silence of lions that if this bitter-led confession.Teodoro Petkoff, "Two Lefts", Caracas, Alfadil publishers (4 th edition), 2006, pp. 16 and 17.
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Dantesol
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