President espouses power of capitalism to convert island nation from within and promises to ‘bury the last remnant of the cold war in the Americas’Barack Obama urged Cuba to embrace the free market in a landmark speech in Havana that championed economic liberty rather than political reform as the key to unleashing the potential of its people.
Ignoring calls to echo Ronald Reagan’s illustrious “tear down this wall” speech in Berlin, Obama drew another leaf from the cold war playbook and focused instead on the role of capitalism in transforming society from within.
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Source: theguardian.com