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Cuban farmers: Let the land be ours

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Tagged: Cuba, Cuban

Cuban farmers have a suggestion for how the government can put millions of acres of fallow land to work and put more food on everyone’s table.

Give state-owned lands to them, and allow a bit of capitalism.

”We are all hoping for some change — a new system that allows you to have a better life and do some business,” said Elena, a small farmer from the Santiago de Cuba area. “Here, you are not even the boss of what’s yours.””*