‘Last Congress’ for Cuba’s old guard'

from miamiherald.........

"According to reports out of Havana, the Cuban economy is transforming from an almost 100-percent state economy to a clearly defined mixed, market, socialist economy. By 2015, the Cuban government expects that at least 1.8 million people and their families will represent a huge micro-economy of small businesses, cooperative businesses, and self employed, in the urban areas while most of the land in rural areas from which state farms have disappeared almost entirely will be in the hands of private farmers, finqueros and private cooperatives.

An entirely new design of how the government should work is being created. The key component here is the decentralization of the administrative and financial functioning of the central government, vis-á-vis provincial and municipal governments, with the granting of an expanded autonomy generating their sources of income and local budgets".........read more here