50 socialist chairs for private restaurants in Cuba

Kafka and Agatha Cristie are advising the former czar of economic reform Marino Murillo Jorge who, following the instructions of the General Secretary, has limited the maximum allowed in private restaurants to 50 seats, disguising fear and distrust towards Cubans with another display of incompetence.

The number of chairs and square meters of the premises should be set by the rationality imposed by the initial capital, the demand and growth that the business achieves, but not by some guayabera bureaucrats who, having their jama assured as long as they sing the Bayamesa, intend to continue with their backs turned. to rationality.

There will be places in which fifty chairs will be an excess or that will only open during the months of the so-called high season for foreign tourism in Cuba, which runs from November to April.

Mechanisms to control businesses abound in all economic schools in the world, but Cuba's problem is the fear that the botched power feels of economic changes that end up leading to political demands; Hence, educated people like Murillo himself or the new Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil Fernández, have no other alternative than to short-circuit entrepreneurs because dinosaurs want to die without accepting freedom and wealth.

Cuba's problem is the fear that the botched power feels of economic changes that end up leading to political demands.

A restaurant with 50 seats can create employment and wealth in its environment, but one with 150 capacities would be an economic engine in its region, encouraging food producers and generators of other services such as laundry and cleaning, for example.

But that equation is what scares the Cuban leaders because the orders of the Political Bureau are clear: let's maintain poverty so that our yard doesn't get disordered and then we ask the bards to talk about poverty in Africa, Haiti and health deficiencies. in the USA and make a fuss about the start of the school year, even though we lack 10 thousand teachers.

The Politburo's orders are clear: let's maintain poverty so that our yard doesn't become disordered and then we ask the bards to talk about poverty in Africa, Haiti and the health deficiencies in the USA

But perhaps those bureaucrats do not know that money is the most cowardly thing there is, and once the Obama mess is over, potential foreign and Cuban investors from abroad prefer to take risks on other less worthy beaches like Yucatan or the Dominican Republic before continuing to pour money into the sights set on the day after tomorrow that never comes.

In short, a shame. We are facing the umpteenth attack by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party on ordinary Cubans, those who dream of a better life, far from the fearful tics of totalitarians, now inflamed by 50 chairs that will be of no use, except to prolong the little step of timbiriche.