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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1788)	4/23/2000 12:14:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

That's the big fear, that cubanos shed blood only to yet again exchange one master for another [that's a direct quote from Mart¡, or pretty close anyway]. The story is not a new one - old pig dictator clearly running out of time, new ones in waiting. Cuba has never known anything resembling democracy, and imho the powers that be behind those ex-cubano forces in Miami are unlikely to supply the opportunity to experience it. A poster above [JEB?] displayed an uncommon knowledge of the development of Castro's political style [for it is nothing more than style, imho] ... at the start he fancied himself as an agrarian reformist more than anything. He was said to admire the ideas of the Plan de Ayala of Zapata before their recent popularisation. Two people i know say they knew him in M‚xico in the fifties, of the claim of one i am certain. Most consider that it was not his brother Ra£l but Che Guevara who swung him into the style of whatever passed for dialectical materialism in the latino inteligentsia of the time. There are a number of excellent documents on the net, the keywords for which i don't remember just now, but here's another - ssmu.mcgill.ca ... a great deal here with which i do not agree, card-carrying practising capitalist that i am, but this passage is exactly correct [as far as it goes, and it goes somewhat less far than it used to] - "...This poor, tiny island which had released itself from the grip of crooked rule and United States' control, and which has for so long stood defiant to the colossus ninety miles to the north, has for years been a source of inspiration for Latin American independence thinkers." A sense of independence, of 'cubanidad' in the case of Cuba, is vitally important ... a flippant comment [for which i reserve the right to repent in leisure-g-] - latinos mind much less being dictated to from their own resident strongman than being dictated to from without, and their strongmen use that preference to hold and consolidate power. The cure is to avoid threatening from without as you aid the people in their education. Remember the Berlin Wall? - one day it was up, next day it was down. But that was only the visible culmination of a long process of education. And the best education is imho done by example. Turf the embargo.