Good discussion on reddit : <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/auv63j/cuba_ratifies_a_new_constitution_that_creates/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/auv63j/cuba_rati...</a>
I visited Cuba a year ago for a couple days on a cruise. I had a nice time, some great people, some great venues (REALLY great venues)... but won't be going back, and it's due to systematic deficiencies (trivial examples: garbage EVERYWHERE, many toilets have to ration toiled paper (!), not to mention, no incentive to clean the bathrooms, many restaurants had bland flavors due to the inability to order specialty food items and spices and only work with the bulk items the government gives you).<p>Also it's frankly weird how the last capitalist era there is basically enshrined in their culture (from the cars, to the fairly-well-preserved buildings dating from that era)<p>Odd observational note on the people: Many are into what I'd call cults but what most would call run-of-the-mill superstitious beliefs (voodoo, etc.)
Seems like the people were offered a mixed bag: Have some direly needed reforms now in exchange for cementing the power of the party, which was already solid to begin with.<p>Honestly, let us just keep Cuba a toy socialist country as it is and not boycott it. Otherwise, where would we point to when we want to show real world socialism? Assuming that Maduro is on his way out, of course.