Cuba's revolution a failure

Cuba's communist party began its 6th party conference on the weekend. During the meeting head of state Raúl Castro spoke out in favour of a ten-year cap on holding political office, which the liberal-conservative daily Die Presse interprets as the failure of the communist revolution: "Because the high functionaries, including the ministers and heads of state (since 1959 there has only been two: Castro and his brother Fidel), liked governing so much and never built up any counter pressure to the communist party, there are no young functionaries who would be competent to take over high administrational and government office. The young revolutionaries turned into rulers determined to cling to power, blocking the way for the progress of new generations and ways of thinking. They always argued that 'the revolution' and 'socialism' held the one and only eternal truth, so that there was no real need for a change in the system. This is one of the reasons why Cuba looks so old and worn-out nowadays."

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