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To: Suma who wrote (5449)	11/17/2005 9:49:30 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 543046

I have pictures of Cuba in our family album. We have relatives who went their for vacations. I have old postcards and souvenirs. Castro is a ruthless hard dictator. But, on the other hand, he has managed to run his country. It ran better when the USSR could still give them handouts, but it still runs- and it has made legitimate gains for the poor. You have to balance that against the fact that in order to maintain his power Castro has had to strangle political dissent, in a very real way. I've seen most of the films that have come out of Cuba- documentaries and fiction- and you can see what a beautiful city Havana was, and how beautiful the island still is. I think Cuba has a better future coming- I just hope the transition from Castro to something else is mild- and I think the US could play a role in that, but we will have to learn to lose the black and white cold war thinking, in order to help Cuba now, and help Cuba later.