Word: cuba
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...failure of its economy forces Cuba to reinvent itself, Fidel Castro has stayed largely in the background, leaving it to other officials to explain and defend the changes sweeping his country. But two weeks ago, he invited a delegation from TIME to dinner for a rare three-hour conversation that gave him an opportunity to define the compromises he is making: to expound, argue, and marshal the evidence in support of a reform process some Cubans fear is changing Cuba too much and others charge is not changing the country nearly enough...
TIME: Can you reflect on the strange love-hate relationship between Cuba...
Castro: The strange thing about this hatred is that it does not come from us. We have never hated the U.S. Thousands of Americans who have come to Cuba have had the opportunity of seeing that there is no hostile feeling against them. In no place in Latin America are Americans treated with more respect than in Cuba. I do not think either that there is any hatred on the part of U.S. citizens toward us. I recall that when I went to New York in 1960, some people booed me. But that came, to a very large extent, from...
TIME: How do you really feel about foreign investment in Cuba...
Castro: At that time the U.S. and Cuba will be friends. The awareness of the need for peace will have made great strides, and the so-called embargoes by you and by us would have disappeared-- out of mental illness--out of stupidity, it will disappear...