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...Czechoslovakia? Castro's rule has proved more durable than the Iron Curtain. But Payá is unique, says José Miguel Vivanco of Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C. Instead of trying to overthrow Castro - as the U.S. has tried to do with its failed 41-year economic embargo - Payá "is openly challenging Castro's system by using the system itself." Payá's Varela Project has collected the signatures needed for a plebiscite - permitted under Castro's constitution - on free speech, multiparty elections and expanded private enterprise. Castro refuses to recognize the project, but the grass-roots movement...
...going to war may too prohibitive in this instance. Instead, the hawks want to isolate North Korea and force its collapse through sanctions. So moribund and dependent is the North Korean economy that sanctions would indeed spark social collapse, which is why Pyongyang has warned it will treat any embargo as a declaration of war. That may be just fine with Washington hawks, but there's no support in the region for sanctions, which makes them a non-starter: The U.S. has hardly any economic leverage over North Korea, while its principal donors such as China and South Korea fear...
What set off Castro's fury? Those close to his inner circle say he feels insulted by the U.S.--and unusually nervous. In hopes that the U.S. would relax its 41-year-old economic embargo, Castro, 76, had begun to soften his anti-Yanqui vitriol. Last year he even allowed Jimmy Carter to visit and speak out for democratic change. But the Bush Administration has delayed Congress' anti-embargo legislation indefinitely. At the same time, a bona fide dissident movement has been growing on the island. "These [dissidents] are just employees of Bush's efforts to maintain his criminal economic...
...United States respond? Those calling for an end to U.S. sanctions include a diverse mix of senators, congressional representatives, business lobbyists and journalists—and not just political liberals, either. Indeed, no less a conservative stalwart than the Wall Street Journal editorial page has advocated lifting the embargo...
...1990’s—the catalyst for all these actions was the U.S., not the regime in Havana. Historically, America has not gotten concessions from Castro by making concessions itself; it has done so by squeezing the Cuban leader diplomatically and refusing to budge on the embargo...