Word: capetillo
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...local press carries little news of the Soviet Union's experimentation with freer markets and economic incentives. Members of Cuba's elite who are aware of the Soviet reforms nonetheless defend Castro's path. The farmers' markets, insists Enrique Capetillo Llana, an editor of the popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series...
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