Instead of just trading them or inheriting them, Cubans will be able to buy and sell their homes as private property.
Cuban President Raul Castro warned that the concentration of property would not be allowed.
During the congress, President Castro also said top political positions should be limited to two five-year terms, and promised “systematic rejuvenation” of the government.
Wonder what tipped him off that it’s a good idea to change your leaders up more than every 40 years or so.
Throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Cuba sent openly gay men to labor camps without charge or trial.
“They were moments of great injustice, great injustice!” Castro told journalist Carmen Lira Saade from the Mexican daily La Jornada. “If someone is responsible, it’s me.”
That’s certainly interesting, although any warm feeling it generates in me towards Castro is counteracted by the sense that maybe admitting you were wrong doesn’t begin to make up for sending members of a minority to labor camps.
Another interesting fact is that Cuba decriminalized homosexual acts in 1979, 24 years before America did. Of course, once again, America also never forced gays into labor camps.
