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...ndez, a faculty member at the University of Havana. “Its dense web of regulations, prohibitions, and exclusions narrowed the legal space to experiment with an alternative policy and tightened the hands of future decision-makers willing to ‘carrot’ [Cuban dictator] Fidel Castro, instead of just ‘stick’ him.” After three instances of covert diplomatic contact in the early 1960s—the first with Cuban official Ernesto “Che” Guevara to discuss Castro’s agenda; the second, a meeting...
...thing that may be predictable is that Chavez will continue to rail against Washington. He proclaimed his victory a defeat for the U.S. and dedicated it to the Cuban people and their ailing leader, Fidel Castro. After years of listening to their leader pounding away at Bush, Chavez supporters appear to believe that Washington is their main enemy. "This is a lesson we're going to give to Bush, because he's interested in our oil reserves," said Luis Jose Moreno, a voter in the poor Caracas neighborhood of Petare, about his conviction that Chavez would...
...20th century, Latin America swung between oligarchic capitalism and populist socialism, and neither fixed the continent's tragic gap between rich and poor. A more sensible, European-style mix - a Third Way - was often discussed; but reactionaries like Chile's Augusto Pinochet and communists like Cuba's Fidel Castro gave it no room to breathe. Now, with democracy more entrenched in the region, the two camps have been forced to face the fact that Latin voters prefer fresh ideas to stale ideology - and that they don't want the U.S. to either invade or go home, but simply behave more...
...company. Countless people who signed in favor of holding a referendum to oust Chavez in 2004 have claimed they have been blacklisted from getting a government job. A foundation for homeless children organized by the Caracas mayor's office even had their kids write get-well letters to Fidel Castro, Chavez's closest ally, when the Cuban leader fell sick earlier this year...
...showed in the outcry earlier this year when the Miami-Dade school board, whose system has a dismal 45% graduation rate, announced that it would spend tens of thousands of dollars in court to ban a kindergarten book about Cuba that it says isn't tough enough on Fidel Castro...