Time for a better sysem

The 84-year-old Fidel Castro has now admitted that the "Cuban model" doesn't even work in Cuba any more, writes the daily Die Presse. Now the US must realise that it has taken the wrong approach with Cuba, it urges: "It has been clear for decades to people without an ideology-tainted viewpoint that a real socialist system of incapacitating the people has no future in the long term, not matter how many socio-romantic facets like free medicine and schooling it has. Castro was able to cast himself in the role of eternal guerillero of the good for many years, but the well-intentioned counter-model to liberalism and a free market economy, both of which can justifiably be criticised, doesn't work at all - particularly when it is coupled with a spy network and the curtailing of civil rights. But the disastrous failure of the Cuba experiment and its descent into poverty is also a result of the US's shameful boycott policy. The latter should allow trade, tourism and political exchange once more so that the Cubans can pick up the pieces and start all over again. And whatever results from the process, it certainly won't be Marxist."

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