1. The Campaign to “Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies”
Ch. 3 Summary
The Campaign to “Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies”

2. Rectify Errors & Negative Tendencies
In 1986 the Cuban Government launched a campaign to “rectify errors and negative tendencies.”
the campaign stressed values & organizing principles that are similar to the late 1960’s campaign “push for communism”
which was when Che Guevara’s philosophical ideas were put into practice & the national leadership argued that the revolution had lost its path & the Rectification Process (RP) would fix this

3. Problem 1: Market Opening
In the early 1980s “market opening” might seem economically/ politically irrational b/c the opening had stimulated economic growth and was politically popular
reforms were out of sync with world trends b/c when this occurred when other Soviet-bloc Communist countries opened up to market forces and at this time abandoned socialist economies
For the U. S. this RP was confusing b/c Castro’s Cuba had been portrayed as a Soviet Pawn which basically meant that the Soviets were liberating their markets but Castro still was dependent of them for trade

4. State Efforts to address emergent problems
Growing fiscal problems
“Open market” does not create revenue
Can not set up hard currency
Debt to western countries
Restricting private trade
Market reform causes problems in state sector
Laborers lesson/ collective forms of labor organizations

5. State Efforts to Address Emergent Problems
Having an “Market Opening” had an increase in certain crimes
Private Profiteering
Included small vendors, farmer's, managers, doctors
Enterprises
Overprice items
Crimes had increased Penal Codes
Which were adopted at the end of 1987
New codes improved rationality and efficiency in the legal system

6. Impact and The Rectification Process
End of 1980 RP resolved neither the state's economic or political problems
Major reason of launching rectification process was to improve balance between domestic revenue and expenditure
RP failed to keep hard currency debt from mounting
RP had an inability to negotiate hard currency
Improvements between
Revenue and expenditure
1988 “Parallel Market” had a fluctuation in sales
Economic conditions in general not good during the first two years of RP
Economy took a turn for the better in 1988