Lorne Gunter: Cuba needs a day at the mall

Lorne Gunter
National Post

Since taking over from his brother Fidel as head of the Cuban government in 2008, Raul Castro has slowly nudged his socialist country towards freer markets and more personal liberties. Monday, he and the Cuban parliament took yet another step down that road.
Cuban parliamentarians – who are largely puppets to the inner circle of the Cuban government and the Communist party hierarchy – approved a 300-point plan for the island country’s future. Included is the elimination of more than a million government jobs, on top of the half-million eliminated since last fall. In a country with six million workers, 85% of whom are state employees, this amounts to a huge displacement of the workforce.
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