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...liberating Cuba, the hard-liners have, in a perverse way, always been Castro's friends. "The belligerent actions of the hard-line exiles in Miami simply keep giving Castro an excuse to crack down on us," says dissident leader Elizardo Sanchez. Post-Castro Cuba, he insists, will be governed by moderates, not right-wing exiles. The same, perhaps, may someday be said of Miami...
...More important, she insists, is ensuring that his successor is market- and democracy-minded. And since Castro blames the embargo for worsening Cuba's moribund economy--a cover for his own socialist blunders and human-rights abuses--why not take away his alibi? Even Cuba's leading dissident, Elizardo Sanchez, agrees. "After the fall of the Soviet Union," he says, "the worst strategy to take against a closed society like Cuba is to tighten its isolation...
...that nothing had been agreed upon, except that there would be more talks. That is not surprising. If Castro is a reluctant economic reformer, he is almost totally opposed to allowing any political opposition inside Cuba. In the past month, 30 human-rights activists have been imprisoned, according to Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban dissident who heads a coalition of rights groups. Since Aug. 5, when Cubans shouted "Down with Castro!" on the Havana waterfront, Sanchez says, 300 people have been detained and sent to labor camps...
Arranging an interview with a human-rights activist entails maps drawn on shreds of paper and mysterious phone numbers passed along by hand. When we finally catch up with Elizardo Sanchez, he tells us to leave our taxi a block away. Sanchez has been outspoken enough to land in prison for eight of the past 12 years. "People don't understand what a regimented state we have," he says. "The proof is that here, unlike Eastern Europe, the government is not changing, even though we have far worse economic pressures...
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