Cuba Castro Picks Up A Capitalist Tool
Details of the plan were still being worked out last week, but officials said Cubans will probably be allowed to deposit dollars in special bank accounts and make withdrawals in the form of coupons that can be spent in government hard-currency stores. The idea is to try to drain dollars from the booming black market and to attract more money from the million-plus Cuban exiles in the United States–the same people who have been despised for years as gusanos (worms)....