Esteban Morales

Future oligarchs awaiting for change

July 24, 2010

The Daily Telegraph on the future Cuban oligarchs awaiting in the wings for change, while Methuselah returns: But one group is likely to be watching this strange political dance between the two Castro brothers with concern, as well as frustration: those who are preparing to amass vast personal wealth from Cuba’s eventual return to capitalism. [...]

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Castroism prepares against the masses

July 22, 2010

La Verdad Obrera (LVO), a publication of the Argentine Socialist Workers Party, has an interesting critical piece on the recent political developments in Cuba from a Trotskyist perspective. The following incisive paragraphs were transcribed from the story: Bureaucracy and corruption Accompanying the announcement of prisoners being released and an economic adjustment is the corruption scandal at [...]

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Academic ousted from CCP for criticizing gov’t corruption

June 28, 2010

Esteban Morales, the Cuban academic who wrote the article “Corruption: The True Counterrevolution?” (published by the National Artists and Writers Union of Cuba in early April 2010, and later removed from its website) criticizing government corruption in Cuba as the greatest threat to the island’s communist system has been stripped of membership in the Cuban [...]

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Corruption is greatest threat to communist system

April 15, 2010

“Corruption at the highest levels of government — not the meddling of a small band of dissidents — is the greatest threat to Cuba’s communist system…In reality, corruption is much more dangerous than so-called internal dissent…The latter is isolated , but corruption is truly counterrevolutionary because it comes from within the government and the state [...]

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