{"id":243973,"date":"2021-09-23T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=243973"},"modified":"2021-09-23T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T17:02:09","slug":"and-our-state-businesspeople-spoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/counterbalance\/and-our-state-businesspeople-spoke\/","title":{"rendered":"And our state businesspeople spoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

They have not always had the opportunity to be heard, even less to be understood, but they have always been part of the \u201ctarget\u201d practice in that fair in which we all believe in the right to throw soft balls at them and blame them for almost everything bad that state enterprises produce, or do not produce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our state businesspeople, who are also often called \u201ccadres,\u201d have always lived like a hot dog trapped between two pieces of bread, who, at the same time, are pressured by the same people who demand that they be agile, creative and innovative. Those who demand also decide and impose the rules of the game that condemn businesspeople to that status of \u201chot dogs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

There has been, for a long time, a great debate about the quality and skills of state businesspeople. The extent of these criteria ranges from those that consider them very far from what a businessperson should be to those that identify the state businessperson as a kind of link in a transmission chain.<\/span><\/p>\n

I still remember that meeting of Fidel \u2014 with a group of businesspeople in tourism, I believe \u2014, in which the skills and results of foreign managers in Cuban hotels stood out. At the meeting, a Cuban businesswoman asked Fidel that Cuban businesspeople be given the same freedom of action as the foreign ones. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then, but the essence of that statement still stands.<\/span><\/p>\n

The truth is that a great many of those businesspeople who seem slow, lacking in creativity, not very innovative, etc. in other contexts, transmute almost immediately, bringing out qualities for which they seemed genetically disabled. It does not matter whether it is because they enter the so-called \u201cnon-state sector\u201d or because they are inserted in enterprises in other countries. It is clear that not all pass the test, but that is common in any context, not only in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n

Las quinientas y los due\u00f1os<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n