John:<<<My solution is to offer them a major league baseball franchise. All will be well when the Cubans have their own little Ted Turner. Heck lets throw Hanoi Jane into the deal. A sure winner. <g> >>>
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I remember reading an interview with Castro printed up in Time magazine in the 50's, while he was still fighting in Oriente Province. He didn't come across as a hard-line communist, at least as written by that reporter...then again, it was in Time, that bastion of conservative thought.<g>
Whether or no, I guess we'll never really know...but I do think it would have been a much better approach to maintain relations with them. Putting an embargo on Cuba's sugar and other exports was certain to put him firmly in the enemy camp.
Batista, from all reports I've read, was a very nasty customer, and Cuba would probably have found any regime preferable. Castro may not be a prince (well, outside of his own mind, anyway<g>), but the peasants/common people are at least exposed to some education and health care...not such a bad thing, considering what they didn't have before. |
