Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Although the U.S. had cause for concern while Cuba harbored Soviet missiles, our current posture is that of an elephant that fears a mouse...
Congratulations on a fair and realistic portrait of Cuba and Cubans [Cover Stories, Feb. 20]. As one who has traveled there and listened to Cubans' concerns, I can vouch for your assertion that they feel very misunderstood by Americans. The fact that one virtually never hears regrets expressed there about the revolution reflects the depth of misery suffered during the pre-Castro regimes...
...Opening Cuba to Castro's way of capitalism involves valuable dollars and hard currency that would most likely end up in private Swiss bank accounts. Few Cubans benefit. Whether the embargo is helping Castro or hurting, we can only guess. What is sure is that Cubans struggle each day to scrounge food for their families. The idea of starting a revolution is far from their minds...
...Americans cheered Fidel Castro for leading a successful revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista. We saw Castro as a Hemingwayesque hero who was going to break the chains that kept most of the Cuban citizenry in poverty, but his true colors came to light very quickly. Until Castro returns Cuba to its people and lets them decide on a form of government, the U.S. cannot consider dropping its long-established trade embargo. It would be a hypocritical travesty for us to ``forgive and forget.'' Let's not crawl into bed with the world's oldest dictator. He is far from harmless...
...outrageous that the only mention of human-rights violations in Cuba comes from Fidel Castro--and, worse, as the punch line of a joke--since all major human-rights organizations have repeatedly condemned his regime as one of the world's most repressive. As for the statement that there is ``no organized opposition'' to Castro inside the country, perhaps this is because dissidents are routinely harassed, beaten and jailed at his order. Having met many of the men and women who bravely jeopardize what little freedom they have to achieve a new Cuba, I am certain they would be eager...