View of a street in Havana, Cuba, during a mass blackout across most of the country, on March 4, 2026. Reuters/Norlys Perez
Commentary
It appears that Cuba is about to end the 67-year disaster of communism. When Fidel Castro became the communist dictator of Cuba on New Year’s Day, 1959, the per capita GDP was US$3,000. After 25 years, it had struggled to $5,000 in 1985, but then collapsed back to $3,000 within a few years. In the last nearly 40 years it has struggled to $8,000, not a bad rate of growth but a disgracefully low figure for such a fundamentally rich country.
