Non-violent right-wing opposition groups, led by the Varela Project, believe that capitalists will most efficiently run a new democratic regime by promoting fiscal responsibility. The Project and other right-wing affiliates trump entrepreneurship and foreign direct investment as integral components of a new democracy. According to the Project’s petition, signed almost 20 years ago in Havana by anti-Castro activist Oswaldo Payá, Cubans deserve the “right” to start companies. Dissatisfied with the Castro regime for not supporting private enterprise development enough, the petition called to “free...the capacity of human beings to strive at raising their standard and quality of life”; “the long periods of scarcity, inefficiency and precariousness
