Some good ideas In Cuba’s economic policy announcements but they were equally good when they were first announced years ago, and several times since. Enterprise law to give legal status to private businesses, allowing those businesses to import... http://www.granma.cu/cuba-covid-19/2020-07-16/en-vivo-informa-gobierno-cubano-nuevas-medidas-economicas-16-07-2020-16-07-21">https://www.granma.cu/cuba-covi...

...and export, more autonomy for state enterprises, etc. – all going to happen when “conditions created” or “work on design” of the measures is completed, whenever that is. In agriculture, the party approved in 2011 the near-complete elimination of “acopio,” the enterprise...

...that contracts, prices, buys, transports, stores, and distributes much of farmers’ and coops’ produce. No idea when this will happen and it is more urgent than ever. The party should fly the opponents to Vietnam and China to see how it worked there, decades ago.

Elimination of 10 percent fee on dollar cash redemptions, effective July 20, transfers that purchasing power from govt to private hands. Govt, doctors, nurses, Minsap, citizenry all deserve huge credit for Covid management.