Cuba says reforms not an open door to U.S. subversion

[Joanne98]

Source: Reuters

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Wednesday that a series of reforms ordered by new President Raul Castro will strengthen socialism and it will not tolerate attempts by the United States and local dissidents to subvert it.

"There is no space for the dreams of adversaries, internal mercenaries and fifth columnists," an editorial in the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma said.

"There will be a more perfect socialism sustained and defended by a united people led by Fidel, Raul and the party's leadership," it said.

Cuba brands opponents to the one-party socialist state as mercenaries on the payroll of its ideological enemy, the United States, and frequently imprisons them.



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[tom_paine]

1. Yeesh. Authoritarians suck. Castros, Bushies. Can't we just put them in a big glass bubble

and let them fight it out amongst each other until there is nothing left put a bloody pus-mound?

Why is it that the domninant form of leadership throughout much of human history (and once agaion rapidly on the rise today) are sociopathic monsters?

If there is one reason that the human race is going to go extinct, the problem from which all other problems flow from, is that almost without exception thrughout human history, sociopaths have found so terribly easy to put a nation's people in mental harness and point them like a gun at people they want to victimize, foreign and domestic.

The inability of the other 98% of us to deal with the 2% of us who are socipaths (not in the directly obvious murderin' way, but the CheneyBush way of hiding it but still being as evil a sociuopath as any murderer on Death Row) and who wish to put us in harness and point us like a gun at their victims (who often include ourselves, anyway - self-immolation)

THAT is the problem from which almost all others stem, and it is a problem which is, apparently, harwired into the genome.

Onece a sociopath passes a certain threshold, a certain critical mass of movement=, the rest just fall into line, or cower in fear. Almost always.

[SweetBrad]

2. Cuba used to be Americas Whorehouse

Gambling run by the Mafia, whorehouse after whorehouse catering to American Saliors - no wonder they don't want us back!

[tom_paine]

3. That is true. I am not disputing that.

I am just pointing out that calling people internal mercenaries and imprisoning them for dissenting is authoritarian and wrong.

Whatever Cuba's issue with our abuse of her in the 40s and 50s, it cannot make these actions correct.

[Codedonkey]

4. what about CVS?

[robcon]

5. In other words, Cuba will continue to be a police state,

and any hope of opening the press, the elections or dissent is unlikely.

I still think Raul Castro is making a mistake in opening up at all if he wants to save his government. Like Poland in the 1980's, any openings will only create more contradictions, and the whole house of cards in Cuba will fall.

[David__77]

6. Cuba is not instituting Gorbachev-liberal reforms.

These are Deng Xiaoping reforms in the economic sphere, principally, with a concurrent opening in information. But the political system will not change.