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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian

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To: donjuan_demarco who wrote (8870)	7/24/2000 2:10:43 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) of 9127

The napalm reference there is to the former party in the Viet Nam-Cuba analogy, to Viet Nam, where i understand the practice of frying peasants from the air with that particular brand of foreign policy style came to symbolise the less beloved end of the spectrum of behavior of the most militarily powerful nation the planet has ever known. The blockade reference comes direct from bloqueo, the word most used in spanish to describe the hostile economic actions of the US ... 'embargo', 'blockade' - the semantics are arguable certainly, but at the end of the day two things are true - 1. semantics are just semantics 2. current US policy toward Cuba is absurd

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