WSJ: A Crack Appears in Cuba’s Dictatorship

WSJ with one of its better recent opinion pieces on last week's Miami Herald leak of internal Cuban government banking information.

More likely, the Cuban status quo, in which dire privation dominates daily life, has become too foul even for some members of the ruling elite. There’s also this: The military may own GAESA on paper, but the Castro family and its allies are widely believed to be the company’s beneficiaries. Greedy rich Cubans treat GAESA as their property.

Internal pressure is what's needed to fuel change, but it all still seems impossible to me, given the many stories over the last 60 years of another potential uprising.

In a recent report to the United Nations, the Cuban Foreign Ministry blamed the U.S. embargo for depriving the government of the $250 million it needs each year to maintain the electrical grid and the $129 million it needs to provide medical supplies annually to its hospitals. Yet one of GAESA’s companies, Gaviota, which is in the hotel business, “is sitting on about $4.3 billion in its bank accounts,” according the documents.

Unimaginable greed and corruption.