The government of Army General Raul Castro suffers from an asphyxiating lack of liquidity which has caused a fall of 36% in Cuba’s foreign trade in the first nine months of 2009.
And the solutions to the economic crisis are a period of wartime and deprivation: not paying debt nor to those of other countries or to creditors, restricting fuel consumption by closing unprofitable companies, asking the population to tighten their belts and further cut what Army General Castro called “excess gratuities,” starting with the food ration booklet.
