Rick Lowe
BBC World News reports that from January 1, 2012 "workers including carpenters, locksmiths, photographers and repairmen will be allowed to become self-employed." [More…]
This comes on the heels of initiative earlier this year when President Raul Castro allowed Cubans to buy and sell cars and homes for the first time in decades.
They even handed over businesses like barber shops and beauty salons to the former employees.
Now the scope of this programme is being widened to other retail outlets.
This is great news for the Cuban people, many of whom are very hard workers and can now become entrepreneurs instead of working for the state.
Hopefully this will be widened even further as this is rolled out over the next year or so and Cuban's will one day in the not too distant future be able to call themselves free people once again, after living in virtual slavery for decades under the Dictator Fidel Castro.
Churchill said something to the effect that Capitalism might be the unequal sharing of wealth, but Socialism is the equal sharing of misery. It's interesting that General Raul Castro is brining these important changes to Cuba.
