Today's Washington Post includes the following observation regarding the Castro regime's self-employment charade:
"It's a big deal, a big breakthrough, because for the first time the government acknowledges that the private sector, the small-business operators, are not bit players but a strategic part of the Cuban economy, that they are the solution, that they will help save Cuba," said Philip Peters, a scholar at the Lexington Institute and adviser to the Cuba Working Group in the U.S. Congress.
Big deal? Big breakthrough? For the first time?
Unfortunately, The Washington Post forgot to fact check this quote.
Here's Reuters on February 25, 1995:
Self-Employment May Be Answer to Cuba's Problems
Workers here, no longer guaranteed a meal ticket for life in state industry, will have to look increasingly at areas such as self-employment if they want a job, says the country's top trade unionist.
Pedro Ross, president of the Cuban Workers Union and a member of the ruling Communist Party's Politburo, stressed in a recent interview that there was a need for a flexible labor market amid Cuba's current economic reforms [...]
Cuba is facing the obvious headache of what to do with surplus workers as it tries to pull out of deep recession triggered by the collapse of communism in the former Soviet bloc.
Some independent economists have put the number of people who would be shunted out of their jobs in an efficient economy at 1 million or more.
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