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Initial interest in Cuba's economic roadmap quickly turns to indifference

But the so-called "guidelines", approved by the ruling Communist Party Congress last month and published on May 9, remains little more than a wish list that the government of Raul Castro may adopt or subvert depending on the circumstances, analysts said.

She said many things, but it is still very general, which raises more questions than answers, "said Oscar Espinosa Chepe, a dissident economist who compared the Havana party-approved version and an older one made public in November.

Many Cubans rush to the newsstands last Monday to buy copies of the publication of 48 pages, and buyers at the beginning, even sold them at three and four times their face price. But Friday's report by cells remained on the shelves, "said a retired Havana.

"There was an initial rush, but now people realize that there is little new there and they are indifferent," said the retiree, who asked to remain anonymous because he n was not authorized to speak to foreign journalists.

The guidelines were designed as a roadmap for the Castro regime to save the Cuban economy by reducing the state payroll, reduce central government controls and allowing more private enterprise, among other reforms.

But some changes from first to last version seems to reflect the decisions to go faster or slower, to allow the company more or less private, reduce or extend central government control or planning.

The latest version, for example, deleted a line saying that there should be no price controls on food grown by a new type of private farmer, noted economist from the University of Pittsburgh Carmelo Mesa-Lago .

Instead, the question now asked the government to fix the price of food Acopio, the notoriously inefficient state agency that buys, sells and distributes agricultural products, the purchase of private farmers who lease land to State fallow.

"This is a radical change back at the helm of government," said Mesa-Lago, considered a leading expert on the Cuban economy.

In other changes, the words "control" and "planning" were added to several of the most recent guidelines, he noted.A key guideline already says that the Soviet-style central planning - not the market - will continue to guide the economic development of Cuba.

Espinosa noted that the latest guidelines also maintain a ban on "the accumulation of property," essentially a warning that the new private companies - whether farmers or manufacturers of bricks - will not be allowed to become too rich.

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