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...Ch?vez, 47, won election in 1998 on a populist platform. His cozy ties with Fidel Castro, Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein have raised eyebrows in Washington. And his criticism of America?s war in Afghanistan, sympathies for Colombian guerrillas and spigot-tightening approach to oil exports don?t play well...
CATHY BOOTH THOMAS, our Dallas bureau chief, has chased after the Pope, Fidel Castro, Hollywood celebs and Enron. Last week she was after the hottest consumer-electronics company in the world...
...compare this regime to the Nazis is a slap in the face both to all patriotic Cubans as well as to the 50 million dead victims of Nazism. To not see that the real crime of Hitler’s Germany was not that (like Castro) it cracked down on dissent but that it cold-bloodedly decided to exterminate whole ethnic groups, is to be willfully ignorant—or perhaps just monstrously callous. Thank God for all those brave Cubans who fought and died to liberate their country from half a century of being America’s vassal...
...crude polemic by Ross G. Douthat ’02 depicting Fidel Castro as equivalent to Adolf Hitler and Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor Mario Coyula as the equal of Albert Speer (Column, “Albert Speer at Harvard,” March 4) deserves condemnation on at least three grounds...
Apparently, no one at Harvard has any problem with this. Substitute Coyula-Cowley for Speer (and Castro for Hitler), and the quotes above represent the view of Jorge I. Dominguez, Clarence Dillon professor of international affairs, and Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics John Womack, respectively, on the advisability of appointing an apparatchik from a totalitarian state to the Harvard faculty. To them, you can add the names of Steve Reifenberg, director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, who is “enormously pleased to have him here,” and Professor of History...