You have quite a point there.
I won't be surprised if after communism is eliminated in Cuba, the former comunistas decide to give "vouchers" to the general public, like they did in Russia. Those vouchers were shares of ownership in various state enterprises.
What was the problem? Since many Russians had little to no knowledge of how those vouchers could help them in a market economy, some people who did knew the advantage of such, convinced many Russians to sell their highly valuable vouchers to them for pennies.
At the end of the day, the people who bought the vouchers stripped the companies the vouchers represented into tiny peaces, sold the peaces, and flew out of Russia millions of dollars richer.
Often times the people who bought the companies were the up and coming oligarchs (former communist politicians who took the most lucrative government enterprises for themselves) who decided to buy the competition in order to kill it and that's precisely what they did. They bought the competition and once they bought it they liquidated it. Voila, a monopoly in the making and we got the modern oligarchs who rule Russia with a tight grip.
Let's hope Cuba will not follow that plan, although if the current politicians have become enamored with their Maseratis then what can we expect? For them to give up that lifestyle in post-communist Cuba?
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