This just in:
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2010-09/0 ... 895451.htm
It is unclear whether the Cuban model worked at one point but has stopped working, or if it never worked and it took him more than 51 years to figure this out.
In tomorrow's news: China holds free multiparty national elections, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad states that Jews aren't so bad, and US Supreme Court rules that constitution applies to Muslims.