Cuba's young communist map future without Castros

[naaman fletcher]

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100403-262147/Cubas-young-communist-map-future-without-Castros

"There will be no turnover, only continuity," said Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, Cuba's first vice president, in preparatory meetings for the conference, rejecting out of hand changes in the country's socialist system.

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Thousands of young Cubans do not work and show no interest in working, used to a paternalistic state taking care of them and turned off by salaries that amount to the equivalent of 20 dollars a month.

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young people here have been affected more than most by the hardships of daily life, the growing inequality and the "collapse of expectations," a recent analysis in the party organ Juventud Rebelde said.

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The revolutionary slogans and appeals that moved their parents provoke indifference at best in many young people, prompting the authorities to intensify ideological education.

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[protocol rv]

1. It doesn't work

I know Cubans who come to Venezuela, and some of them talk when they know nobody is listening. They believe the system is so corrupt and rotten to the core, all they'll need is for Fidel to die, and the system will change. And once it begins changing, the communist oligarchs won't be able to stop the change. It'll be like in Eastern Europe and other former communist nations.