Pressure Cookers Fix Economic Errors

On the International Day of Women, and speaking to an audience of Cuban female leaders, Fidel Castro announced that his government will make available to Cuban households 100,000 pressure cookers a month. The measure is intended to correct "the errors, deviations and confusions" of the few liberalizing measures introduced into the Cuban economy in the recent past.

Optimistic about newly formed alliances with China (errr!) and Venezuela, and rather hopeful about recently discovered petrol deposits off the Cuban coast, Castro believes that liberalization can be erased and centralization can be brought back in (Hat tip: Tom Cerber @ The Politic).

In the meantime, Europeans are once again trying to bring pressure to bear on Castro over Cuba's persecution and execution of dissidents, in anticipation of a vote in June of this year to end European sanctions against the Castro regime.

Right in the opposite direction heads Kathleen Blanco, Governor of the State of Louisiana, who useful-idiotically traveled to Cuba this week wishing to drum up business for her state. Positively emboldened by these developments, Cuba has launched another attack against the United States for shortcomings in human rights. Cuba compares the American handling of al-Qaeda terrorists detained in Guantanamo, Cuba, with Cuba's persecution and harassment of peaceful political dissidents.

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