http://www.freetalklive.com/taxonomy/term/5288/0 en http://www.freetalklive.com/content/farmers_market_free_market_rises_cuba <p>Cuba has no shortage of fertile farmland, but the country spends $1.5 billion a year importing about 70 percent of its food. The communist government's chronic struggle to get farmers to produce more is forcing authorities to grudgingly accept a greater role for market principles and the profit motive. Now authorities seem willing to go another step further, tolerating the rise of what might be described as Cuba's "free-est" market.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/farmers_market_free_market_rises_cuba#comments Cuba farmers Free Marketeerism News Article Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:53:59 +0000 Jking8767 24865 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/cuban_government_says_oops_communism_does_not_actually_work <p>Cuban President says state's role in the economy has to be reduced. Well no kidding? It only took you 51 years to figure it out.</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/cuban_government_says_oops_communism_does_not_actually_work#comments Cuba cummunism Free Market freedom News Article oops socialism Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:41:21 +0000 mosltyfree 7036 at http://www.freetalklive.com http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fidel_castro_no_longer_believes_communism <p>Fidel Castro no longer believes in communism. "The Cuban [economic] model doesn't even work for us anymore."</p> http://www.freetalklive.com/content/fidel_castro_no_longer_believes_communism#comments communism