La revista Foreign Policy ha otorgado el cuarto lugar a Raúl Castro en una actualización de su lista de los peores dictadores del mundo.
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La revista Foreign Policy incluye a Raúl Castro en una actualización de su lista de los peores dictadores del mundo, en la que el gobernante caribeño logra el cuarto lugar.
La publicación señala que a medida que el círculo de amigos de los dictadores se reduce, la paranoia y el miedo se apoderan de ellos.
Agrega que bajo creciente presión para que reformen sus abominables sistemas, prometen reformas mientras desatan la furia de las fuerzas de seguridad para reprimir brutalmente a los manifestantes callejeros, y arrestar a cientos de activistas.
Apunta Foreign Policy que al cabo de 52 años bajo los hermanos Castro, los cubanos están despertando, y cita el apoyo popular a recientes protestas públicas en la isla.
Señala la revista que la crisis económica ha obligado a Raúl Castro a renunciar al estado de bienestar como sostén de su régimen autocrático. En su lugar -dice Foreign Policy- ahora tendrá que depender por completo de la represión, lo cual resulta en un consenso muy frágil.
4. RAÚL CASTRO
Cuba
After 52 years under the rule of the Castro brothers, Cubans are stirring. On Aug. 23, a group of four women took to the steps of the capitol building in Havana chanting "freedom." The Castro security goons pounced, raining rocks and using iron bars on the unarmed ladies. The crowd that had gathered booed, hissed, and insulted the agents.
Things were already getting hot for Raúl prior to the Arab Spring. Cuba's socialist economy has been in the doldrums. On Sept. 13, 2010, Cuba announced it would lay off "at least" half a million state workers over the next six months and simultaneously allow more jobs to be created in the private sector as the socialist economy struggled to get back on its feet. The plan was part of a pledge to shed some one million state jobs, a full fifth of the official workforce. It increasingly looks like Raúl's plan is akin to Mikhail Gorbachev's "perestroika" -- sans "glasnost."
"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities and services with inflated payrolls and losses that damage our economy and result counterproductive, create bad habits and distort workers' conduct," the CTC, Cuba's official labor union, announced. The Castro regime, which has for decades relied on its relatively generous welfare state to retain autocratic rule, will now have to rely entirely on state repression. It's a very fragile arrangement.
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