Outcast_Searcher wrote:And surely, IF reforms are allowed by the Cuban government and things actually open up economically, this will have far greater benefits for Cuba than the US. For the US, it's just one more very minor trading partner. For Cuba, it's a more toward capitalism, more jobs, more markets, and more freedoms.
Note that this is NOT a done deal. If Cuba refuses to allow more freedoms, then nothing much happens.
Cuba is on the road to capitalism. Obama's visit to Havana is just another step on this road.
Raul Castro has ALREADY created a private sector in Cuba. About 40% of the population is now works in the newly forming private sector in Cuba consisting of mostly tourist related small businesses----restaurants, bars, musicians, cab service, little hotels, guides, etc. etc.
The communist economic regime in Cuba is ending. If Raul and Fidel play their cards right, they and their family members and other members of the communist leadership cadre can seize personal control of prime real estate and parts of the Cuban economy and transform themselves into very wealthy oligarchs through these business deals with Obama and the Us corporations he is representing.
Over the next couple of years the Cuban Communists and their families will become the new Cuban oligarchs