never appears in the guidelines and never appears in current president raul castro's official explanation of what the guidelines are intended to do. in a speech about the new guidelines a few weeks ago, raul castro said, i can assure you that the guidelines are an expression of our people's will contained in the policy of the party, the government and the state to update the economic and social model in order to secure the continuity and irreversiblity of socialism as well as the economic development of the country and the improvement of the living standard of our people. so when the castro brothers are forced to accept the irreversiblity of more capitalism in the cuban economy, it must be described as in raul's words, securing the continuity and irreversiblity of