Cuba and Vietnam were saved of such evolution to have a different history and to be in a continent far distant. Whereas in Eastern Europe the USA was view like an ally against hard and a symbol of progress and freedom, in Cuba and Indochina was a strong popular resistance to Washington to that they had repelled militarily or they confronted a blockade. Whereas in Europe the Eastern ones saw as the western part of the continent had better standards of life and consumer goods, in Cuba and Vietnam their populations saw that their neighbors had discharges rates of unemployment and poverty, reason why their economic models did not arouse the attraction to him that yes had the European Community for the Euro-Eastern ones. While liberal revolutions of East Europe knew to remove advantage of resentments of national minorities (like Armenian of Karabaj, Baltic, the Slovenes and Croatians, etc.), Cuba, although it is a crucible of races, is nationally homogenous. To the week that Fidel fulfilled his 65 years the blow of Yanayev in Moscow took place (19 21 August 1991) that, when failing, it produced a feedback. Those years must have been terrible for Fidel because it saw as its Soviet godfather were disintegrated. This era its main buyer of sugar and other products and also its supplier of hydrocarbons, machineries and other goods. In 1990 her comrade Daniel Grouse loses the power and since then the sandinistas have not returned to govern Nicaragua. In spite of its isolation, I castrate avoided a rise Eastern Europe type because their main opponents were outside the island and to that the majority of the population compared its standard of life with the one of the rest of Latin America that was under strong adjustments. Although the monetarists maintain that those reforms were essential to guarantee growth Chile type, certain it is that then these initially produced in many parts I close of companies and leisure, panorama that Fidel showed like a bad example the Cuban town.