The Havana Drug Cartel

GAESA: The Havana Drug Cartel  by Pedro Roig, Janisset Rivero and Leon Hirsel It was a perfect storm. An immense catastrophe. When on December 31, 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed and disintegrated, Fidel Castro was devastated. The fall of the Berlin Wall signaled the Cold War historical victory of the U.S. Castro's perception of being on the winning side of the ideological conflict was now an unequivocal mistake. Communism had fallen into the abyss of its own fallacies. From the very beginning Castro was wrong fighting for a decrepit and dysfunctional dogma. The Cuban Revolution was a colossal failure and Cubans paid dearly for Castro's mistakes. In the mid-1980’s, the Soviet CPSU General Secretary Mikail Gorbachev, initiated the restructuring of the Soviet Economy, introducing “PERESTROIKA” and a liberal political openness, as well as “GLASNOST'' and an attempt to end the “era of Soviet economic stagnation”.  It turned out to be a decisive factor in the collapse of the communist Eastern satellites in Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. By the late 1980’s, Gorbachev’s new reforms distanced the Soviet economy from Castro's outdated Marxist ideology. It was evident that the economic arrangement between Cuba and the Soviet Union was not compatible. Leer artículo completo www.cubastrategicstudies.com

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