Reply #26: The Right-Wing Exiles Are In For Disappointment [View All]

[Vogon_Glory]

The right-wing Cuban exiles who plan to invest in Cuba after Fidel are in for some disappointment. I've no doubt that many of them would be scrutinized by a post-Fidel government to see how much support they gave to the travel bans and embargo legislation as well as to such pols as Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart brothers.

I also don't doubt that many Canadian, European, and Mexican firms who invested in Cuba during the 1990s and afterwards will remain ahead of any US-based Johnnies-Come-Latelies. The Europeans and the Canadians will have had the better part of fifteen years to make friends and contacts with the Cuban government while the Exile-right's remaining pre-1959 familial connections will have frayed by time and deaths from old age. I also don't doubt that the Cuban government will remember who kicked them when they were down.

Unlike the hard-core Marxist-Leninist Castro apologists, I don't doubt that post-Fidel Castro's Cuba will be a mixed economy. There will be honored places for some of the exiled business community--but only for those who not only invest in their businesses, but who will also give and give generously to help upgrade Cuba's frayed infrastructure and architectural heritage.