Conservative exile leaders unveil plan for post-Castro Cuba [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Fri, Feb. 20, 2004

Conservative exile leaders unveil plan for post-Castro Cuba

BY OSCAR CORRAL

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Hoping to prod the Bush administration in the right direction, top conservative Cuban exile leaders unveiled Friday the most comprehensive plan to date of how to proceed with a transition to Democracy and free markets in a post-Castro Cuba.

The sweeping proposal is a clear indication of the vision powerful exile leaders have for the island that they fled from years ago. It addresses everything from property rights to wages to political parties.

The plan calls for the privatization of ''joint ventures'' between the government and foreign investors, endorses the right of urban property dwellers in Cuba to remain in their homes, as long as old private owners are properly compensated, and suggests that social classes be officially reintroduced with defined roles and rights.

The plan is also a clear rejection of dissident Osvaldo Paya's Proyecto Varela, a referendum singed by tens of thousands of Cubans to effect change on the island by working within the communist constitution.
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