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...training brigade" of 11,000. But the State Department estimates the entire Soviet military presence in Cuba to be no more than 7,600, including 2,800 soldiers, 1,200 civilian technical advisers, 1,500 military advisers and 2,100 technicians assigned to the huge Lourdes facility outside Havana, which eavesdrops on U.S. telecommunications. Moscow did make apparent, however, that it expects Washington to match its retreat from Cuba by withdrawing from Guantanamo Bay naval base on the island's southeast shore, which the U.S. has occupied since...
...Havana's reaction was predictable: outrage. In a sharply worded statement, Cuba's Foreign Ministry criticized Moscow for "inappropriate behavior" in failing to consult with its ally before announcing the pullout. The breach of protocol aside, Havana acknowledged that the Soviet military presence had become largely symbolic. The number of Soviet troops on the island peaked at more than 42,000 in 1962, and has been in decline ever since. Far more worrisome to Havana is Moscow's planned change in its conduct of trade, which promises to intensify Cuba's political isolation and economic deprivation...
...would be wrong, however, to assume this discontent will translate into the demise of Castro and Cuba's brand of tropical socialism. While some 175 million live in poverty in Latin America, there are no beggars on the streets of Havana. The infant mortality rate is 10.7 per 1,000 births, in contrast to 60 before the revolution. "We see socialism is difficult to achieve, but capitalism isn't the answer either," says Sierra Wald, 17. "Nobody wants % Fidel to step down. People worry about what might happen without him." Young Cubans increasingly see themselves as the last idealists...
Take the example of Paradise, a farm that lies at the end of a dusty red road on the fertile plain south of Havana. A white bust of Lenin marks the entrance. By day Paradise is where Cuba's young dirty their hands with the real work of the socialist revolution, weeding, hoeing and harvesting in fields planted with banana trees. But by night it seems more of a '60s hippie commune, with parties in the "club," El Mosquito Picante (The Spicy Mosquito) and stolen kisses in the thatched hut out back...
...find solutions inside socialism." These aren't assembly-line thinkers; they genuinely care about the gains of the revolution. "I don't have a car or a lot of jeans, but for me Cuba is more important," says Randy Alonso Falcon, 21, a student leader at the University of Havana...