Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work

AP/YahooNews ^ | 9/8/10 | PAUL HAVEN

[Kartographer]

Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work, a rare comment on domestic affairs from a man who has conspicuously steered clear of local issues since stepping down four years ago.

The fact that things are not working efficiently on this cash-strapped Caribbean island is hardly news. Fidel's brother Raul, the country's president, has said the same thing repeatedly. But the blunt assessment by the father of Cuba's 1959 revolution is sure to raise eyebrows.

[Kartographer]

I think it just froze over!!!

[Red Badger]

Only took him 51 years to figure it out.......................

[Kartographer]

“Only took him 51 years to figure it out.......................”

Yeah, so how long will it take the ‘DemonRATS’? ;-)

[hometoroost]

That puts him about 29 years ahead of the Democratic party.

[OldDeckHand]

I never thought I’d see the day when Fidel Castro is more conservative than the American President. Between this comment, and the earlier comment about Israel, Castro is making Obama look like - well - Castro.

[screaminsunshine]

Castro said this? It has got to be a trick. Probably making some sort of deal with Obama.

[paulycy]

I wonder if Castro is starting to look a bit differently on the whole GOD issue in his final months...

[DManA]

American commies claim Cuba’s only problem is our trade “embargo”. Time to throw Fidel under the bus?

[Southack]

China’s prosperity and North Korea’s grinding poverty are re-writing the rules of Communism. Cuba and Putin have noticed.

Mugabe has not.

[El Sordo]

I withhold comment until I see what kind of shenanigans they think will work.

[Retired Greyhound]

“Only took him 51 years to figure it out.......................”

and countless executions.

[ilgipper]

someone send this to president@whitehouse.gov.

[theDentist]

Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work...

You payin' attention, dog?

[BlessedBeGod]

Sounds like he wants something from somebody, and saying this is the way to get it...

[Lou Budvis]

IIRC - Didn’t the animated Castro say this in the Simpsons right before he tricked Homer into giving him a billion dollar bill?

[a fool in paradise]

Fidel Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba's communist economic model doesn't work...

If Fidel told this to his buddy Oliver Stoned, that admission wound up on the cutting room floor.

[bayouranger]

More like he had a view of what awaits him for the things he’s done and The Man asked him to admit his mistakes being his next appointment.

[JPG]

Maybe Castro finally saw that nighttime satellite photo of Korea with a brilliantly lit, sparkling South and a pitch black North.

[Gabrial]

All those people tortured and killed for nothing.

Hell is waiting Castro.

[rockthecasbah]

“Sounds like he wants something from somebody, and saying this is the way to get it...”

Exactly.