The Minister of Economy and Planning, Alexander Gil Fernandezinformed the deputies of the National Assembly of Popular Power (ANPP) that the Cuban regime has a single business system and defined its framework as “socialist.”
“We always confirm that in the country there is a single business system, which has the objective of producing goods and services to satisfy the demands of the population and support economic and social growth,” said Gil Fernández in his presentation of the “Situation of the Cuban Economy” during the sessions of the X Legislature of the ANPP.
Made up of 16,253 entities, the Cuban socialist business system has 2,422 state entities and more than 5,000 cooperatives. In addition, this model includes the 103 joint ventures in Cuba (with State participation), the almost 600,000 self-employed workers and the more than 8,500 recently created Mipymes.
According to the minister -who completed five years in office on July 21-, it is in the state-owned company where “the greatest growth dynamics of the economy” should be generated. Contrary to the empirical evidence of the world economy, Gil Fernández insists that these state and socialist “forms of property” should be the engine of the Cuban economy.
“It is a single business system with various forms of management and various forms of ownership, but with the same objective: it is a single socialist system,” said the head of the economy, leaving for analysts the striking idea that the “objective” of the state business system is to remain “unique” and “socialist”, rather than produce goods and services profitably.
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Gil Fernández touched his nose on several occasions while he explained to the more than 500 ANPP deputies that the socialist business system is responsible for 87 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 75% of exports and 92% of net sales.
It was also touched while explaining that the transformation of 159 Base Business Units (UEB) into “subsidiary companies” gives them greater autonomy in their management, or when referring to the 270 mercantile companies (known as SA) with capital 100 % Cuban, or the more than 100 Mipymes of the State.
“They are all socialist state companies”assured the minister of the ruling Miguel Diaz-Canel. “This is the main economic actor. This is where we have to incorporate the transformations and look for ways to promote production”.
With 1,431,000 workers employed in the socialist business system, the Cuban regime’s economy minister warned that his ministry’s policies will give priority to the state sector, introducing “productive development” measures such as “investments”, “incentives” in its companies ” and other ways to boost your activity.
“We have the main means of production in the country under control… or state ownership: power generation, telecommunications, an important part of transportation, railways, cement factories, steel factories… tourism in a general sense, industry in a general sense,” he explained.
That is where the greatest dynamics of recovery of the economy and economic growth of the country should be generated, said the minister, “because it is where the main assets of our economy are; And so, of course, is the design of our economic model”
“It is the design that we have to defend,” concluded Gil Fernández in a presentation that received the applause of the deputies when he ended by saying that “also in the economy Cuba will win.”
Troubled by a systemic crisis whose hemorrhage it is unable to contain, the Cuban regime has launched to promote the nascent private sector on the Island, focusing on Mipymes as new economic actors, called to alleviate the scarcity and high prices that hit the markets. pockets of citizens increasingly impoverished by rising inflation.
Recently, numerous Cubans reacted with indignation to a tweet from the United States Embassy in Havana, which celebrated the “important growth of the private sector” in Cuba and the “independence” of its companieshighlighting that this sector is on track to buy more than a billion dollars in goods by the end of the year.
Very mobilized against this false image of economic openness, Cuban civil society He reminded the US diplomatic legation of the true nature of private business in the country, and its control by the leadership of the totalitarian regime, which Gil Fernández considers constitutive of the Cuban State.
“Do you know what this supposed private sector is? Investigate, investigate so that you see that the supposed private sector is the dictatorship itself trying to show changes on the island, everyone knows that this is a fallacy,” a woman told the diplomatic legation. US.
“We are halfway there, but we are not doing well; we have to close ranks and speed up the pace”, Gil Fernández recently said before the government’s top staff, most of whose members were already in the executive that developed and launched the so-called “raulista reforms”designed then by the ousted “czar of economic reforms”, Marino Murillo.
If his words were not a metaphor, the minister acknowledged that there are still 12 more years to go before “the guidelines” finish bearing fruit, a period of time that could double the destruction caused by the erroneous economic and social policy of the “revolution and the game”.
