{"id":200755,"date":"2019-06-16T20:26:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=200755"},"modified":"2019-06-16T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:26:34","slug":"diaz-canel-ratifies-decentralization-of-cuban-economy-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/diaz-canel-ratifies-decentralization-of-cuban-economy-by-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00edaz-Canel ratifies decentralization of Cuban economy by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel<\/a> ratified that starting 2020 the economic plans “will not come from above” and that it will be the workers who will design the goals of the state enterprises, a “bold measure” by the government to try to revive the island\u2019s damaged economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president referred to the new directive when giving the closing speech of a congress of economists, who are necessary “to successfully implement the decision,” Granma<\/em> daily <\/span>reported<\/span><\/a> this Saturday in a front-page story.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the decentralization of its economy, Cuba ends decades of verticality in its economic plans, a method that although effective in the first years of the Revolution, today has become a burden for the Caribbean nation, determined not to fall back on an intense crisis like that of the “special period” of the 1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n

For many specialists the main challenge of this transformation lies in changing the culture of “verticality” that doesn\u2019t question the orders from a higher structure.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A change of mentality is necessary for this much-demanded measure to be effective. To take a leap to the new moment and know that the Plan will not come from above. It is an audacious and revolutionary measure that demands objectivity, realism and awareness,” D\u00edaz-Canel insisted.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marchas y contramarchas: el pa’tr\u00e1s y pa’lante de la pol\u00edtica econ\u00f3mica<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n