It's not about the cell phones. After all, which "ordinary Cubans" will be able to afford them?
It's not about the microwave ovens or the computers. Ditto.
It's not about the ability to pick up your medicines wherever you want. I can't believe this one was even a story.
It's about freedom. And until Raul Castro starts dispensing liberty — or better put, until he gets out of the way and lets Cubans use their God-given right to make their own economic decisions and pick their own leaders — all this talk of "reform" is claptrap designed to distract from the reality of Cuba one month after Castro was coronated dictator: Little has changed, and the prospects for real reform, real freedom, are nil as long as he and his cohorts are in charge.
These reforms, for Cubans who somehow scrounge up the cash to pay for them, may provide for a few creature comforts; and I do not begrude the Cubans for whom it means a better life.
But freedom is still outlawed and tyranny still reigns.
Nothing has changed.
UPDATED, 8:25 p.m. EDT
Granma reports that specific rules about how Cubans can acquire cell phones will be released soon. But there already is one telling detail: Cubans will have to pay with higher-value convertible pesos, and not the almost worthless pesos most Cubans earn. The apartheid of Cuban society goes on and on ...
(H/T Penultimos Diás.)
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