Castro's comments were pretty big news in Latin America, particularly on the political left, where support for Cuban Communism remains  strong. For example, the Mexican left newspaper "La Jornada" has a full page article on it:

 

 http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/09/09/index.php?section=mundo&article=024n1mun. And it's all over the Brazilian papers, the Argentine, the Ecuadorean and the Chilean.

In Venezuela, the anti-Chavez opposition thinks it's a pretty relevant statement, since Castro has said he sees no difference between Chavez's policies and communism in Cuba.

The pro-Chavez left websites in Venezuela are also discussing Castro's comment: http://aporrea.org/actualidad/n165135.html---where they express the wish that Cuba release the official transcript of Castro's remarks.

Cuban papers haven't mentioned it to Cubans yetl. The official party daily, Granma, has not said anything, http://www.granma.cu/, nor has Prensa Latina http://www.prensa-latina.cu/,  or Juventud Rebelde, the "youth" paper. http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/. This is so despite the fact that they are reporting OTHER statements by Fidel, made during the same time period, such as a speech to university graduates.

 

Twenty-five years ago, the Cuban Communist Party purged itself of those it considered "Gorbachevites", followers of the then-Soviet doctrine of perestroika (economic rebuilding) and "glasnost' (freer expression). Now it seems that Fidel Castro is having his Gorbachev moment.

Castro was the prime author of the "Cuban model" over a fifty year period, and certainly its most famous exponent, world-wide. If he has decided it doesn't work, shouldn't people in Cuba be allowed to find out?