2006-08-11

Is it still a Revolution after 50 Years?

What's "revolutionary" about Cuba's nearly 50 year old govt, which has had a single, totalitarian leader its entire existance? Haven't controlled economies already been tried, with consistently disasterous results, including in Cuba? Here's the latest crackdown on free speech in Cuba. Nadir thinks that this is no worse than the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts, of course. Bush's policy to "destroy the Cuban revolution"? Simply to assure Cubans that if they permit free speach and erect a democracy, he'll open relations with and support them. Castro has led this fake threat from the US into a fifty-year tyrany with eternal excuses for a failed economy and for the tyranny itself. I don't understand why his supporters in the US never move there! Afterall, his opponents in Cuba regularly risk their lives move here. Nadir says that they're "mostly elitists". Have there been any "elitists" in Cuba for 40 years other than high ranking communist appointees?

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