Hello, friends. Today I want to talk to you about a topic that everyone is talking about and we know it will affect us and has us reflecting on how they referred to this new situation: war economy. Yes, just as you hear it, war economy! But before I go into details, let me tell you that one of the most curious aspects of politics and economics is the tendency of some communist countries to never acknowledge their failures. It is as if they live in a world where they are the center of the universe and whatever they say or do they are always right.
Let's put a name and a surname to this situation. It turns out that, this time, the Cuban government decided to implement something they call "reordering the order". I know it sounds confusing, but basically, they are trying to correct an economic policy they put in place in 2021 that ended up being a total failure. Instead of openly admitting the mistake, they have only slightly done so, this attempt to correct this situation, they have called it "war economy". So I wonder who is the war against?
The curious thing is that, although these measures seem to have neoliberal overtones, the government insists on denying any relation to that label. Not really. It's as if acknowledging the nature of these measures is a cardinal sin. When have you ever seen a communist government admit anything that doesn't suit it? Well, that's basically what happens. But, if it's not neoliberal, who benefits?
The most disconcerting thing about all this is that while these measures are being announced, no one is clarifying how the already battered wages of the people are going to be able to survive. It is another of the many shock tests we have been exposed to, although the success rate, at least, for the benefit of the people, since 2021 to date has been an astronomical 0%. Examples of them have been, the Monetary Order itself, the law on fishing, and there is no fish in Cuba, despite being surrounded by the sea, but the culprit, is the blockade. An original pretext that only the little mermaid Ariel believes.
Now then, which leads me to raise a question in my mind: who is this economic war against? Because, honestly, the economic situation seems to be more the result of the government's mistakes and incompetence than of some external enemy. So, who is to blame this time, or is it just a paraphrase? This is nothing new, since the Cuban crisis has been renamed "conjuncture" for years, as if it did not mean the same thing.
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And to top it all, instead of learning from their mistakes and allowing the economy to breathe a little, they are announcing more state control and intervention. More control after 65 years of failures! They are repeating over and over again the same failed strategy.
In short, the war economy, sounds more like a play on words than a real solution. What they pretend is that the situation is complicated in order to justify that it is going to get even more complicated. Because at the end of the day, it is not about a war against an external enemy, but about leaders with the consequences of wrong decisions. When will be the end?
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Original text in Spanish: Translated with DeepL
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