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...that the U.S. and the exiles would do better to encourage change on the island with economic incentives, as Washington has done with other communist holdouts like China and Vietnam. "All those congressional bills say, 'Unless you do what we want, we'll kick your ass,' " says Juan Antonio Blanco, director of a private think tank in Havana. "What we need is not threats but an offer of help...
...Tourism is a sort of chemotherapy," says historian Juan Antonio Blanco, director of a new private think tank. "You have cancer and it's the only possible cure, but it might kill you before the cancer does." The inequality, the privileges derived from separating the foreigner from his dollar, he says, "could prove more socially disruptive than the bad shape of the economy...
...told. Cubans are law abiding and have no taste for civil disobedience. Cubans are happy "if they have one plate of food and a bottle of rum," says restaurateur Octavio. Cubans don't believe in any ism but paternalism. "The state has provided for 30 years," says Blanco. "That's not the case anymore, but half the population has not adapted to reality...
...revolution from below would despair. Many of the Cubans we meet show no interest in politics, nor do they talk about a political solution to their country's problems. But not because this is a nation of devout communists: "Most people became revolutionary not from reading Karl Marx," says Blanco, "but because they saw suffering in the streets." Even in the privacy of a dissident's house, there is no eager call for multiparty democracy. Most Cubans do not seem to care what kind of political system they have as long as they have an economy that works...
...count on a deep reserve of support from a populace proud that he freed the island from the foreigners who once owned the casinos and the sugar fields and the rich who exploited the poor. "He is like the godfather who will always look after you," says historian Blanco. Things may be hard now, say three elderly ladies in a party-run senior citizens' center in El Cobre, but thanks to Fidel, "somos feliz. We are happy...