the cuban economy as seen through its trading partners by jorge salazar carrillo director and professor florida international university non resident senior fellow brookings institution david r ebro phd student at introduction it is well known that communist economies consider information of crucial importance during early stage dictatorship proletariat in order to achieve paradisiac final period communal bliss development control polity required for what appears be a number decades 1 result statistics on economic matters tend restricted these societies when they are published or disseminated other fashion like speeches thoroughly massaged objective give impression continued success building socialism impress foreign investors who might attracted provide hard currency investment may needed system case cuba traits have been taken extremes especially decade nineties after disappearance soviet bloc 1989 fact was year which country s statistical abstract anuario estadistico de
