• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 11 / 25 / 2010

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The island nation says it will update its economic model to make it "more socialist." MADRID, 24 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) The ruling Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) has recognized  the islanders have become "specialists in domestic figures" because they have to perform "miracles" for their salaries to endure the whole month in a "sort of subsistence economy."

In an article released on Wednesday, 'Granma' Daily refered to the "economic sinners" who due to "incompetence", "ignorance" or "those who violate the law " do not fit within the  precepts settled by the socialist model.

“We, Cubans, have specialized in domestic figures: some of us perform miracles for  wages to last the whole month, others send their bills to relatives abroad for them to ship remittances and there are some naughty who make a living out of nowwhere but not from real jobs, "says the text.

This has created a sort of 'subsistence economy',which is divorced from reality instead a bad habit prevail in some many common places of the Cuban economy, but this situation can’t be afforded anymore, this is “unsustainable.”

That is why 'Granma' Daily insists on the need for all Cubans to think about these "problems" and assimilate each of the rules contained in 'Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy. "

This economic program will be discussed in April at the Sixth Congress of the PCC, containing a total of 291 measures, promoting et al, private investment to reduce subsidies and the state’s staff, as part of the new strategies launched by the Cuban President Raul Castro since he took office  four years ago.

Source: Europa Press and cubaheadlines.com's translation