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...quickest fix for the Cuban economy would be an end to the 32-year U.S. embargo, but Bill Clinton is not eager to end the cold war-era isolation. In the long run, if Castro will not or cannot adopt free-market reforms, his % country has little hope of ending what Cubans call the "special period": the current era of acute hardship brought on by the fall of the Soviet empire, which had sustained Cuba's command economy until 1991. If he does institute far-reaching changes and the rest of the world -- despite the U.S. embargo -- responds with trade...
...have a chance for their own revolution, a revolution in the economy, a revolution in service," he says, grinning because he knows what people think of service in communist countries. And political change? "Yes, that must come too," he says. "In the '60s, '70s and even the '80s, the Cuban system was fine. Now, no. Often you hear people say, 'I am not my father...
...change, though he knows the transition will be painful. Technocrats like him who earn part of their salaries in U.S. currency can often afford to buy foreign cars, rent big houses, take trips abroad and eat at dollars-only restaurants. Brought up to believe in the egalitarianism of Cuban socialism, some try to share, but they are often rebuffed by friends offended by their foray into capitalism. "It's difficult when I have $20 in my pocket and my friends have 20 pesos," admits Gutierrez...
Even though the U.S. is the destination of choice for Cuban rafters, the millions who remain are stubborn about not wanting Washington or the exiles in Miami to cram changes down their throat. "I'm a party member, not a robot. We don't accept many things that the government does, but we are changing the country in our way," says a government official. Even entrepreneurs like Gutierrez draw the line at interference from Cuban Americans. "I'm not going to work for the people in Miami, even though a lot of them are my friends," he says. Almost...
...interview with TIME editors today, the chief Cuban negotiator in Friday's agreement over the refugee crisis, Ricardo Alarcon, said the first U.S.-Cuban accord during Fidel Castro's three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister...