September 8, 2010 Cuba: Communist Economic Model Loses a Stalwart Defender By REUTERS Fidel Castro said Cuba ’s economic model no longer worked, an American journalist reported Wednesday. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in his blog for Atlantic magazine that he asked Mr. Castro, left, last week if Cuba’s model of Soviet-style Communism was still worth exporting to other countries. “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Mr. Castro said, according to the report. Mr. Goldberg said that Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Council on Foreign Relations , thought Mr. Castro’s answer was an acknowledgment that the state played too big a role in the economy. The comment appeared to reflect Mr. Castro’s support for the economic reforms instituted by his younger brother, President Raúl Castro . In the interview, Mr. Castro, 84, also criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran for anti-Semitism and denying the Holocaust. He also criticized his own ac...
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