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Current Events » in reply to re: Iraq dos?

Lawyers, guns and money

It's going to be very strange, since if Communism falls in Cuba, the Communist Constitution will not be in force. The last "capitalist" Cuban Constitution, dating back to the 40s I believe, was in de facto use during the Batista regime, but only when it suited Batista. There will be a legal vacuum in which lawyers and jurists and corporations with no valid licence, precedent or jurisdiction will be operating. It will be a feeding frenzy.

The closest thing we have as a guide will be the fall of the Soviet state,
but in that case most legal institutions retained their legitimacy. In the case of Russia, though, you didn't have a 100K or so exiled individuals storming home with a claim to state assets, so the apparatchiks traded their baggy suits and party cards for Armanis and briefcases and simply took over.

And I believe the second wave to hit the beaches will be organized crime and drug lords.

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