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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian

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To: George Papadopoulos who wrote (7807)	6/27/2000 2:50:00 PM
From: marcos	of 9127

"Cubalinda.com believes that the U.S. government's effective banning of travel to Cuba, except for limited exceptions granted by license, is as absurd as the well-known historical U.S. paranoia toward Cuba. For reasons that are not always clear or consistent, the political class in the United States, beginning at least as early as the administration of Thomas Jefferson, has never been able to accept the idea of a truly independent Cuba. The main fear seems to have been, and certainly seems true today, that if this island and its people are not under firm control of Washington, they are likely to become a threat to U.S. national security. This view ironically prevails today despite Pentagon assurance that Cuba is no threat to U.S. national security. More specifically, one may assume that banning travel to Cuba today is one way to prevent Americans from seeing first-hand the achievements and successes of the Cuban Revolution, as in the educational and public health systems." cubalinda.com A little overstated the last sentence, that is not imho what the average cubano on the street thinks, but the mutual paranoia thing is kept very much alive by the Mas Santos and Burton types ... it's just the dark side of an intense love/fear relationship between two nations only ninety miles apart ... proof that as a species we have a ways to go to get rational.

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