Word: fidel
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...been said that totalitarianism is dead when a shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
...today's Cuba, more than just the economy is dead. So is the Revolution. Many analysts say that this year is particularly critical. If the situation does not improve in the coming months, Cubans will undoubtedly begin to realize their own strength (the lesson first taught them by Fidel himself...
...Fidel Castro's envoys did their best to slide his main complaint across the bargaining table, but the U.S. negotiators slid it right back. After seven days of talks in New York City, the Cubans had to settle for what the Americans offered in the first place: a narrow agreement on immigration. They got nowhere on the issue that Castro blames most for his economic problems: the 32-year-old U.S. trade embargo. The deal sealed in New York last Friday amounted to a simple swap: the U.S. will take in at least 20,000 legal Cuban immigrants each year...
...past year, more government- run farms have been converted to peasants' cooperatives. Farmers' markets, allowing growers to sell their produce directly, have been formally approved but are not yet open. Most of these changes are being forced on Castro from below. "Some want to do it with Fidel; others have dropped that hope," says a political analyst in Havana. "The people are pushing the leadership, but it's like a bike with no chain. You go nowhere until the chain -- the system itself -- is fixed...
...interview with TIME editors today, the chief Cuban negotiator in Friday's agreement over the refugee crisis, Ricardo Alarcon, said the first U.S.-Cuban accord during Fidel Castro's three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister...