Who are these “reforms” for?

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castro, inc.’s public relations machine is working overtime these days getting the word out about all of the new reforms that raul the reformer is introducing, the latest being the unrestricted sale of cellular phones.
Here’s a sampling of the news stories on this topic from just one google news alert:

Cuban lifts mobile restrictions
NEWS.com.au – Australia
CUBA’s new president has authorised Cubans to officially get mobile phones, until now mainly reserved for foreigners and government staff. …
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Cuba lifting restrictions on mobile phones
Reuters – USA
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba announced on Friday that it would allow unrestricted use of mobile telephones by all Cubans for the first time in the latest step by …
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Cuba allows unrestricted cellular phone service
ABC News – USA
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba announced on Friday that it will allow Cubans the unrestricted use of mobile telephones for the first time in the latest step by new …
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Cuba lifts curbs on mobile phones
BBC News – UK
Cubans are to be allowed unrestricted access to mobile phones for the first time, in the latest reform announced under new President Raul Castro. …
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Cuba lifts mobile phone restrictions
Guardian – UK
Raul Castro at Cuba’s National Assembly in Havana. Photograph: Ismael Francisco/AFP/Getty images The Cuban president, Raul Castro, today lifted restrictions …
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Cuba Lifts Ban on Use of Mobile Telephones, Improving Access to …
FOXNews – USA
President Raul Castro’s government will for the first time allow unrestricted use of mobile telephones by its citizens, the latest step by Cuba to improve …
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Cuba’s new government to allow ordinary Cubans to get cell phone …
International Herald Tribune – France
AP HAVANA: President Raul Castro’s government said Friday it is allowing cell phones for ordinary Cubans, a luxury previously reserved for those who worked …
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Did you notice anything missing?
Where’s the Granma story? How about Juventud Rebelde, Periodico 26 or Prensa Latina?
One would think that the Cuban people would be delighted to know about their newfound right to own a cell phone (if they can afford one).
Makes me wonder that all of these “reforms” are for international consumption more than anything else.
How long before the MSM dummies figure out that they are being played like cheap fiddles? Or do they even care?

5 thoughts on “Who are these “reforms” for?”

  1. Granma Si –
    Only Raulito’s “Granma” can afford a cell phone under his “reform.” Nice try Raulito. When Dr. Biscet is provided with a Cell Phone – yo le creo!
    -S-

  3. What Granma doesn’t have (nor the MSM)
    Cubans have been using mobile phones for quite a while, usually provided by tourists and foreign friends who left the country.
    (Some very special friends of the Cuban opposition have introduced hundreds of uncontrolled mobile phones into Cuba. The prepaid plan is bought by a tourist who will not return. When the amount is spent, another tourist is “used”)
    A nightmare for Minint because it takes them too long to find out who is who.
    Allowing mobile phones (of course only a few will be able to afford them) allows for better control.

  5. The ball is in our court now. How we play this game and how it ends depends on US.
    raulita is going to bleed the exiles dry if we let him.

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