Por: Hesti

Vice President Carlos Lage (57) or National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon (71) who are both capable and runinng the country as much as Raul. All three are reformers potentially in the direction of Gorbachev or Deng but Washington is locked down by Miami. Fidel has not left a power vacuum. The immediate post-Fidel moment has very nearly come and gone. Other options are available. Cuba is in the midst of an oil boom with US companies cut out of the deal. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the North Cuba Basin has potential reserves of between 4.6 and 9.3 billion barrels of crude. There is no democratic revolution in the works. The Cuban people are not interested in the Washington Consensus all for us, nothing for you model, but then, who is anymore? Now that Putin has been screwed on Kosovo, who knows of the possibilities.