Word: cubanism
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...those cities; a half-century after he arrived on the world stage with a bang, Fidel left with a whimper. There was no overwhelming sense of sorrow in Cuba nor exultation across the Straits of Florida. There was only a collective shrug. "It's O.K.," said Yanelis, a young Cuban woman in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. "Fidel is an old person; he should rest...
...departure is ramping up debate over whether the U.S. should free itself of torrid Cuban-exile politics, dismantle its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and establish the kind of diplomatic relations Washington has with other ironfisted regimes, like those in China and Saudi Arabia. The Bush Administration has steadfastly refused to even consider ending the embargo, a policy that may sway elections in Florida but has failed utterly to dislodge the regime in Havana. If the U.S. hopes to get more results, the President who takes office next January will need to change course and engage Cuba, allowing...
...foreign investment in sectors like tourism, now a $2 billion-a-year industry in Cuba. "Beans are more important than cannon," he often said in the 1990s. As interim leader, he has made more of the right noises. At last summer's anniversary of the launch of the Cuban revolution, Raśl spoke less about the glories of socialism and more about the economy's "deficiencies, errors and indolent bureaucratic attitudes...
...more than he could in the provisional role," says Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel. "Now I think we'll see significant changes, not just in style but in policy." Bernardo Benes, a Miami banker and prominent Cuban exile who played soccer with Raśl at the University of Havana and was an emissary to Cuba for Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, agrees: "I do expect him to free himself from the image of his older brother. I expect...
...further loosening the economic and political screws--a path that may be easier to take if Washington drops the embargo. "If we don't," says Jake Colvin, director of the Washington-based USA*Engage, an arm of the National Foreign Trade Council, "the U.S. risks alienating another generation of Cubans and pushing the Cuban government further into the arms of countries like Venezuela and China...