The change will apply only to Cuban citizens and residents and will limit people to one permanent residence and one holiday home

This sort of change is probably the only way forward if they want to increase the wealth of their citizens. It's a good move for the country at this point. They should transition fine as long as they don't have some sort of crash liberalization like they did in Russia.

Does this mean white people can have Miami back?

If they let foreigners buy they'll destroy any hope cubans have for improving their economy

How are they going to decide who owns what?

Dumbass Cubans. . . .following the lemmings off the cliff. . . .

Girion47: If they let foreigners buy they'll destroy any hope cubans have for improving their economy

International trade is surely the way to ruin these days. Isolationism is awesome!

Barakku: Girion47: If they let foreigners buy they'll destroy any hope cubans have for improving their economy

International trade is surely the way to ruin these days. Isolationism is awesome!

International trade is good, selling your real estate to people that will cause all other real estate to be unobtainable, is the best way to turn your citizenry into 2nd class citizens.

The best way to do is to allow individual real estate holdings, and hope that the people are intelligent enough to rent the homes out to tourists as a source of income.

I hear they're giving great rent deals on 1950s caddys with the 5th russian-made engine in them..

fatalvenom: Does this mean white people can have Miami back?

What do you you plan to do about the Haitians?

Barakku: International trade is surely the way to ruin these days. Isolationism is awesome!

Lots of the world trades with them. Not the US, but we're not the only economy on the planet.

I wish we'd open up to trading with them though. They make great rum.

/er, so i've heard, I'd never buy any when in a country like Mexico or Canada if any government types are reading this

Girion47: Barakku: Girion47: If they let foreigners buy they'll destroy any hope cubans have for improving their economy

International trade is surely the way to ruin these days. Isolationism is awesome!

International trade is good, selling your real estate to people that will cause all other real estate to be unobtainable, is the best way to turn your citizenry into 2nd class citizens.

Sure would be a shame if Cubans lost all those hard won rights/privileges and had to live as poor and oppressed people on their own island. . . .

JasonOfOrillia: The change will apply only to Cuban citizens and residents and will limit people to one permanent residence and one holiday home

Sounds reasonable to me. We could use something like this in the rest of the so-called civilized world. It's morally repugnant to own four empty homes when there are people out there without even one.

PainInTheASP: Girion47: If they let foreigners buy they'll destroy any hope cubans have for improving their economy

Oh, I'm sure that certain arrangements have already been made.

*Looks at the nice golden phone and passes it on.*

Cuba currently has an economic system where everyone has housing, free health care and free education. A system where everyone receives a living wage and everyone has the same amount of wealth - there is no rich or poor.

Now they want to turn to a system where in the end 1% will own everything and 99% will have nothing. A system where the majority of the people will live in run down shacks and receive a mere pittance for a salary for their work if that much.

They keep this up and Cuba will look like Wall Street with the hundreds of thousands of people living in the street and the 1% bourgeois living it up in their banks.

dionysusaur: fatalvenom: Does this mean white people can have Miami back?

What do you you plan to do about the Haitians?


They're always offering me mints and cologne in the mens room at bars....what do you think?

portscanner: Cuba currently has an economic system where everyone has housing, free health care and free education. A system where everyone receives a living wage and everyone has the same amount of wealth - there is no rich or poor.

Now they want to turn to a system where in the end 1% will own everything and 99% will have nothing. A system where the majority of the people will live in run down shacks and receive a mere pittance for a salary for their work if that much.

They keep this up and Cuba will look like Wall Street with the hundreds of thousands of people living in the street and the 1% bourgeois living it up in their banks.

And the price of that enforced "equality" is complete lack of political freedom, among other things. (new window) I don't see how you can hold Cuba to be any kind of idealistic society. I suggest using Norway or Sweden, places where you can't be thrown in prison for openly dissenting from the government.