Word: cubaã
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...Cuba??s jailed dissidents need more of those sparks. All too often their cause is ignored by Western journalists and academics. The task of educating people about Castro’s gulag normally falls to Cuban-American activists and organizations, whose efforts are as indefatigable as they are invaluable...
...come to the conference with the same views—not advocating a return to Cuba,” said Bianca M. Ferrer, a sophomore at the University of Florida at Gainesville. “What they found was older generation Cubans calling for the youth to go to Cuba??to make their own decisions—instead just listening to their grandparents, who often have emotionally-charged opinions...
...Varela Project, an initiative spearheaded by dissidents seeking a referendum on political and economic reform within the island’s Communist framework. A clause in the regime’s constitution purportedly allows citizens to organize a national referendum if they can gather 10,000 signatures, and Cuba??s opposition leaders had been able to collect over 11,000 for the Varela petition, which they presented to the National Assembly in May 2002. Unfortunately, the dissident project now appears to have suffered the same fate as so many other challenges to Fidel Castro’s repressive...
...useful idiots.” The phrase could easily be used to characterize people such as Stone, who willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba??s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time being, however, proponents of Cuban freedom must not simply accept Castro’s tyranny as a normal state of affairs that cannot be changed?...
Charlene Music ’04, who once represented Cuba??s anti-embargo stance as a participant in Harvard Model United Nations, said she is also interested to see what conditions are like in the country...