Cuba Builds Communism-Free Zone

Cuba Builds Communism-Free Zone
In this Nov. 6, 2013 photo, workers landscape the area near a new port under construction in Mariel, Cuba. Some companies will no doubt be hesitant to set up shop at the new port knowing that U.S. embargo rules would almost certainly prohibit them from selling their products in the United States, and that their Cuban operations could complicate any trade they do with Uncle Sam. Embargo rules prohibit ships from docking in the United States for six months after calling in Cuban ports. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)
In this Nov. 6, 2013 photo, workers landscape the area near a new port under construction in Mariel, Cuba. Some companies will no doubt be hesitant to set up shop at the new port knowing that U.S. embargo rules would almost certainly prohibit them from selling their products in the United States, and that their Cuban operations could complicate any trade they do with Uncle Sam. Embargo rules prohibit ships from docking in the United States for six months after calling in Cuban ports. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)

HAVANA, Cuba One country, two systems. The formula has worked for China’s business-minded communists. Can it succeed in Cuba?

President Raul Castro’s government is building its own version of a Chinese-style economic zone on the banks of the Mariel Bay, 30 miles west of Havana, where the laws of scientific Marxism will not apply.

Inside a 180-square-mile special economic zone, Cuban planners have envisioned a global capitalist enclave where foreign companies can install manufacturing plants, research centers and operational hubs.

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