Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing

It was a casual remark over a lunch of salad, fish and red wine but future historians are likely to parse and ponder every word: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more." Fidel Castro's nine-word confession, dropped into conversation with a visiting US journalist and policy analyst, undercuts half a century of thundering revolutionary certitude about Cuban socialism. That the island's e

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Cuba's communist economic model has been criticised by an unlikely source:Fidel Castro/Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, asked Castro if Cuba's economic system was still worth exporting to other countries. Castro replied: "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us any more,