{"id":253334,"date":"2022-05-25T18:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=253334"},"modified":"2022-05-25T18:52:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T22:52:35","slug":"the-soviets-in-cuba-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/the-soviets-in-cuba-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Soviets in Cuba (III)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fidel Castro\u2019s speech on July 26, 1970 in the Plaza announcing the failure of the Ten Million Sugar Harvest would, in fact, constitute the end of the so-called heroic period of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1970). A heresy, indeed, but one that produced a dire economy with high rates of unproductivity, inefficiency and labor absenteeism, all elements that would end up plunging the country into serious problems. The project had accumulated two setbacks in a row: the Cord\u00f3n de La Habana (1967) and the Revolutionary Offensive (1968). And now, at the very beginning of the new decade, the Great Harvest was added to that list, which was set to be \u201cthe great leap forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Starting in the 1970s, a new term appeared in the national idiolect: \u201cinstitutionalization,\u201d a word with which it was decided to baptize 1977. It was a process of homologation with the Soviets and the so-called real socialism, beginning with the adoption of the management and centralized planning system of the economy, in force until today. It was a move characterized, among other things, by the following:<\/span><\/p>\n