Oh, he's one repressive dictatorial old commie despot, have no doubt of that ... that 'tough new' legislation wasn't much different from the old, they just switched the names of the acts around and adjusted some wording, codified some stuff that was generally in application under other laws anyway ... i used to have an url on cuban law but can't find it, thought i had it bookmarked but it's not here ... it was from a canadian university, i think ... Waterloo, possibly ... very objective treatment, i was impressed.
Will he die or be deposed first, this is the question ... if he dies first Raúl comes to power, that is the plan anyway ... that may be a window of opportunity ... but i think contact will be the tool, in any case ... one-on-one, people talking to people, trading goods and services and ideas ... just like water on limestone, drip drip drip and one day the rock crumbles all of a sudden ... like the Berlin wall. |
