
{"id":312353,"date":"2024-11-01T20:08:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=312353"},"modified":"2024-11-01T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T00:12:25","slug":"cuba-and-its-circumstances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/counterbalance\/cuba-and-its-circumstances\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba and its circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dictionary of the Spanish Language defines it as follows: an accident of time, place, or way that is linked to the substance of some fact or saying. It also defines it as a quality or requirement and offers a third meaning, \u201cgroup of what is around someone\u201d \u2014 or something, I would add. The same dictionary gives us more than a dozen synonyms: situation, context, juncture, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is also the famous phrase that states that human beings resemble their circumstances more than their parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When explaining strategy in business courses, it is always said that threats and opportunities must be sought in the context, of the circumstances surrounding enterprises and that they constitute externalities, which, almost by definition, are beyond the control of the enterprise, the person, or the country in question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As externalities, they are very difficult to manage. However, the need\/possibility of drawing up strategies that allow these threats to be converted into opportunities and the opportunities into \u201cgood business\u201d is always insisted upon. Repeating the refrain is, of course, the easiest thing to do. Turning it into reality is another matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Cuban case, for historical reasons that I imagine we all know, in a very high percentage associated with the \u201cpredilection\u201d of the U.S. governments for Cuba \u2014 their real Havana syndrome \u2014, we have developed a special capacity to turn opportunities into threats and, as a consequence, lose good business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has also had to do with the circumstances, the environment, the context; although not everything has been and is someone else\u2019s fault.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My friend Goyo, if he could, would tell me that we have a knack for turning strengths into weaknesses. For example, we have as much arable land per capita as countries that are major food exporters. However, agriculture in Cuba is a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth is that circumstances draw boundaries, sometimes very well defined and practically inflexible; sometimes diffuse; other times, relatively flexible; but boundaries, after all, with which organizations, countries, people\u2026 have to deal constantly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing with the context, negotiating it, adapting to it without giving up on the purpose is, without a doubt, one of the most difficult exercises that someone can face; but there is no other choice and, as long as we are in this world, we will be negotiating with circumstances, sometimes without knowing it. On many occasions, we will lose in the negotiation, even if we do not realize it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the scale of the economy, in the context we must include everything from the international economic and political situation to the institutional framework in which the agents operate; that is, families, enterprises, and the State.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are about to end a tremendously difficult year, not only because we have not been able, during its course, to change trends that hinder growth and compromise development, but also because of events that occurred this month that have added a burden to the effort to grow and improve \u2014 even minimally \u2014 the living conditions of the people. This is a more than a laudable goal, but difficult to achieve when we put on one side of the equation the sum of internal failures and \u201ccircumstances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It seems that the tendency toward a weak \u2014 and even negative \u2014 GDP growth cannot be reversed; toward continuing to accumulate fiscal imbalances, at a slow rate of decrease in inflationary dynamics; toward the deterioration of the purchasing power of wages; toward the concentration of investment in a sector whose performance does not justify it; toward the decrease in supply and the deterioration of our external sector \u2014 foreign trade, foreign investment, debt, current account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be necessary to add the disconnection of the electric power system and its impact on the economy, a fact that is not at all a juncture, which is not limited to three days of productive disruption, and the hurricane that has so severely damaged the province of Guant\u00e1namo, one of the poorest territories in the country in terms of per capita income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The circumstances are then even more important. Knowing or not knowing how to deal with the circumstances aggravates or softens the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the circumstances have changed and will change. In Latin America, the balance between \u201cleftwing\u201d and \u201crightwing\u201d governments becomes more diffuse. Who is rightwing? What kind of leftwing is it? Today it seems that the right is much more united than the left. And this circumstance counts and is relevant for Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news comes from the inclusion of the country as a partner in the BRICS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I confess that I am not well informed about what it means to be a partner in terms of access to projects, programs, financing, etc. What seems undeniable to me is that this new circumstance is an opportunity for Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A group of countries that are very important to the world economy and politics, committed to creating a multipolar world, with financial institutions and a monetary system that offers an alternative to the dominance of the dollar of the financial institutions that serve global capitalism, is something that covers those other countries that do not reach the importance of the founders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new circumstance, a qualitative change in the context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is up to the partners to know how to take advantage of it. To understand its rules of the game. The BRICS are not the CMEA, in the same way that Russia is not the Soviet Union; but the relationship with Russia is important.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soon our circumstances will change again and probably not in the best direction: in just a week the elections in the United States will be decided. The very asymmetric relationship between Cuba and its neighbor makes this exercise of U.S. democracy always important for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_312367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312367\" style=\"width: 1140px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312367\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1140\" height=\"756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/embajada-eeuu-efe-2024-750x497.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Embassy in Havana. Photo: EFE\/Yander Zamora.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I do not like to say it like this, but I have always thought that we are not important for the U.S. voters, or the candidates. We are a callus on the foot of the U.S. government, but we are not on the agenda of priorities of any of the contenders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Trump wins, we know what is coming; if Harris wins, we know little, although continuing Biden\u2019s policy towards Cuba seems to be her path.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, for Cuba, there is something in common between the BRICS and the U.S. elections. First, they put back on the table the need to be sufficiently agile to adapt to new circumstances. The essential use of our strengths to build a solid economy, which reduces the impact of U.S. policy and, even, can take advantage of some beneficial change with sufficient agility, measuring and at the same time taking risks, so that it is possible to take advantage of the possible spaces that we can find in the BRICS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For this, the Cuban business system, everything, is fundamental, and having rules of the game that facilitate negotiating the environment and responding quickly to incentives is decisive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two international contexts place Cuba in a new scenario: on the one hand, its recent inclusion as a partner in the BRICS, and on the other, the upcoming elections in the United 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