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Cuba: the Most Important Country in the World

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  • Perhaps even more difficult: establishing some kind of "wealth tax" a la Thomas Picketty (whom, I've been assured, the Economic Planning Body is studying).

  • Incentives to repopulate the countryside with a view to ensuring Cuba's food sovereignty.

  • Those are the general directions. Actual decisions will be "transcendent" more than one person at the heart of the process told me. They will be made according to a world vision that is "entirely new."

    Breathlessly, we await the results. They will determine whether Cuba continues to be the change which our deepest concerns indicate we'd like to see in the world.

    Cuba's resistance to imperialism, its willingness to address real problems (like climate change and income inequalities) rather than ignore or deny them -- all of these are what make Cuba "most important."

    They are the reason Cuba might even be poised to become "the greatest country in the world."

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