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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: Lane3 who wrote (8517)7/16/2000 7:50:26 AM
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After four decades of opposing Cuban communism, the dissident movement acknowledges it has little to show for its efforts. While there have been economic openings and a nascent shift in U.S. political opinion toward Cuba on the outside, these developments have brought no discernible movement inside Cuba. It remains a country where it is illegal, and costly, to speak, write or gather freely.

And now that the government appears to have been ideologically rejuvenated by the Elian Gonzalez case, "it's clear they are going to take it even further," said human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez, dean of the dissidents. "I think it's going to be like the Chinese Cultural Revolution, tropical style."

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