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This type of anti-Castroism, directed "against the totalitarian deviations" of the Cuba regime, is prevalent in Venezuela, Costa Rica, and perhaps Mexico, Boersner stated, where "the Castro movement plays neither a revolutionary nor a progressive role...
...reactionary regimes of Latin America, on the other hand, "generate an anti-Castroism protesting the social reforms of the Cuban government," Boersner said, and termed this illiberal sentiment "easily as bad as the evil it claims to be fighting." Under these governments, which oppose social change, "Castro propaganda is bound to be effective," the journalist warned...
...think a truly enlightened policy on the part of the United States should involve a clear distinction between the two anti-Castroisms," Boersner explained. "If the United States would dissociate itself in word and deed from the people like Batista and the reactionary economic interests, making clear it does not wish to re-establish in Cuba the system that prevailed before the 1959 revolution, I believe the vast majority of Americans would support your country in sanctions toward Cuba...
While deploring the "ambiguous attitude" of the U.S. government toward the new Cuban government after the fall of Batista, Boersner noted that Latin Americans were unsatisfied with the totalitarian system Castro offered...
...Above all, we blame Castro and his followers for not admitting that every Latin American country should work out its problems in its own way," said Boersner, a member of Romulo Betancourt's governing Accion Democratica party...