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...have education and health care, but we don't have food or freedom. What can I give my child?" She feels caged and angry. "They control everything," she says, making the gesture of a hand stroking a beard, which is how Cubans silently refer to their supreme leader, Fidel Castro. The woman down the hall reports regularly to the local block committee about her, says Ana, "because I am not a conformist." She finds peace in her Bible, though her faith has earned her a black mark on the dossier that follows all Cubans from childhood to death...
After a rare, two-week visit by American journalists to the island, it is apparent the issue is not so simple. Already Fidel Castro's Cuba is no more. Whether he is leading the way or merely acquiescing to it, the socialist Utopia he built is sliding inexorably toward capitalism. But Cubans still believe that Castro's revolution has given them something too precious to lose. People understand their economy is in ruins, but they see no one who could lead them out of their present misery but Fidel. The struggle under way is between Castro and the forces...
...Castro announced steps to open up the economy. He legalized the use of the dollar, granted more autonomy to farmers, and allowed people in more than 135 small-time occupations, from shoe repair to haircutting, to work for themselves. "For 30 years we did not do anything like this," Fidel told a group of 175 Americans visiting Cuba in violation of the 32-year U.S. embargo, "but the realities of today's life have forced us to do this. It is painful, but we have no other choice...
Miami's fate, it is often said, was sealed when Fidel Castro started reading Karl Marx at the University of Havana. The mass exodus of middle- and upper- class Cubans, driven into exile by communism in the 1960s, began a process that lifted the city from its utter dependence on domestic tourism into the global economy. The Cubans, given immediate political asylum and resettlement help by Lyndon Johnson and subsequent Administrations, prospered...
...some of them, including one arranged by Secretary of State Dean Rusk at a villa in Italy owned by the Rockefeller Foundation, Rusk's former employer. Reeves also shows Kennedy routinely lying about what U.S. troops were doing in Southeast Asia and about American involvement in attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro...