From our Bureau of Failed States with some assistance from our Bureau of Communist Purges in Latrine American Totalitarian Hellholes An article in The Economist digs deep into Cuba's economic disaster. Although this lengthy article parrots one of Castro, Inc.'s excuses, saying "Cuba has been impacted by the heavy-handed policy implemented by the Trump administration",
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Since 1975, Cuba’s ruling Communist Party has periodically convened a congress at which, in keeping with the arcane rituals of socialist states during the Soviet era, the Party makes public official policy guidelines. This year, the eighth congress ended after a four-day session that was arguably its most momentous: it coincided not only with the sixtieth anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, which led to the breakdown in relations with the United States and helped to precipitate the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but also with a historic curtain call for the Castro era.