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...continue to advance his extreme socialist agenda, he could well have caused far more death and misery than the 3000 people Pinochet is responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet the same organizations often overlook Cuba??€™s then routine torture of tens of thousands of its dissidents. Not to mention the atrocities committed in the Stalinist Soviet Union, Maoist China, or other socialist Latin American governments. It is important to remember that communism can be very dangerous—especially in South America, where...
...opportunities, and for the 18 months of wrangling with Uncle Sam it took to receive the appropriate licensing. This opportunity is a welcome one for Harvard students, who have been unable to study in Cuba since the Bush administration tightened its travel restrictions in 2004.The prospect of change in Cuba??€”presaged by Cuban President Fidel Castro’s delegating power to his brother, Raul, this past summer—makes this opportunity all the more timely. Harvard students can serve as cultural and ideological ambassadors to a country that has had only minimal contact with...
...strict federal regulations on U.S. travel to communist Cuba and activists’ concerns about academic freedom in the island-nation. The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) and the Harvard College Office of International Programs (OIP) have obtained a federal license for a joint effort with Cuba??€™s preeminent educational institution. The U.S. government’s current embargo on trade with Cuba has stymied Harvard students’ past attempts to study in the country with programs that were not College-affiliated. Current law forbids student travel to Cuba unless the student is from...
...academic institution, Harvard ought to keep its place at the forefront of intellectual discourse by bringing to Cambridge speakers who revile us, even as they challenge us. The University lived up to this part of this mission when, in 1959, it invited Fidel Castro, then newly installed as Cuba??€™s premier, to speak to a crowd of 6,000 at the Dillon Field House. It did so again by bringing Mohammed Khatami here yesterday...
...mouthpieces of the dictatorship. Security guards stood in the lobby of my hotel to keep Cubans out of the guests’ rooms. I found out that the government does not want its citizens to see cable television. It might show them the trappings of more prosperous societies. Second, Cuba??€™s regime stifles innovation. I met a taxi driver who told me he left his post as a history professor because he could make more money from tourists’ tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people...