Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What this means is that Cuba, at least to some extent, is on our wavelength, as the Hermit Kingdom never could be. Castro has eaten hot dogs at Yankee Stadium, been carried by cheering students around the Princeton campus and appeared on the Tonight Show. Though none of that ensures affection and all those memories are distant, someone who spent his honeymoon in New York City knows at least a little of America. Kim Jong Il, by comparison, is famous as the one leader who may never have met an American. And, being unable to put a face...
...will never be easy to talk, or deal, with North Korea, an almost cultish hall of mirrors ruled by a neophyte whose only qualification for power is his patrimony. Cuba, to be sure, has many Potemkin surfaces, plus all the brutality of a police state, but its people are worldly enough at least to know how much salt to sprinkle on their slogans, and its leader, up against his ninth American President, is canny enough to adapt a little to the times. While Cuban official billboards occasionally note how "Pride" in the Revolution has led to "Upset" and "Disenchantment," North...
...right, then, to fear North Korea, a country so far removed from us that it does not know, or seem to care about, the assumptions of the world. Yet Cuba, whose destiny has been entwined with ours for almost a century, is deserving of our respect and our sympathy. For three decades now, the U.S. has been Castro's greatest ally, allowing him to turn each bungled assault into a propaganda victory and to present himself, with some justification, as a resolute David standing up to a bullying Goliath. Now Washington has the rare chance to do with Havana what...
...Cuba and Haiti are adjoining Caribbean countries ruled by dictatorships hostile to the U.S., and lately Washington has followed nearly identical policies toward them. It has enforced tight embargoes against trade and travel and even sent warships to prowl off both coasts. Starting last month, refugees fleeing both islands have been plucked from the waters off Florida and interned in side-by-side tent cities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...
...seized power in 1991 is an outlaw regime, scorned by nearly all other nations, that sustains its power over a terrorized populace by brute force. Yet its army is a rabble that could be swept aside by an American invasion force in a matter of days, if not hours. Cuba's communist government, by contrast, has survived 35 years of U.S. hostility and the collapse of its longtime patron, the Soviet Union. Despite growing anger and privation among Cubans, Castro retains a degree of popular support -- and a big, well-armed military force that makes a U.S. invasion too bloody...