The Castro Cuban Revolution was never about improving the lot of the “average” Cuban. It was about the Castro brothers seizure of power. Everything else since that first year of mass execution and loss of middle class, educated, Cubans was focused on maintaining that power.
What caused the “failure” of the “Cuban model”? There was no Cuban model to follow. Cuba's economy was always subsidized by Russia as part of its political and economic war on the US. When Russia's economy collapsed and their political model fell Cuba was left with nothing.
Almost 40 years after the rise of the Castros there had been ZERO improvement in Cuba's economic infrastructure. Ten years later, even the founder and chief architect of the “Cuban model” has to admit it no longer works even for at the very apex of the Cuban society.
THE ONLY REASON CASTRO WOULD SAY THIS >>>
HE IS LOOKING TO GET $$$$$ FROM THIS MARXIST
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION!!!-
THINK I AM JOKING ? ALSO ASK ANY RINO-I AM SURE
THEY WOULD GIVE THEM MOST FAVORABLE TRADE STATUS !!
Do you realize that this is part of the domino effect that President Reagan started when he opposed the Soviet government????? President Reagan, it took a loooooong time but look at what happened to Castro!!!!! (Thank You, Lord!!!!!)