Regarding your editorials “Bush’s Cuba Pickle(1)” (May 9) and “Our Man in Havana(2)” (May 16): While the U.S. embargo has not forced Fidel Castro’s capitulation, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, it has limited his capacity to subvert his Latin American neighbors, forcing him to liberalize economic policies in order to remain […]
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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s recent visit to communist Cuba has renewed the calls for normalization of relations with the workers’ paradise from many quarters from statist politicians who have admired Fidel Castro for decades to exporting firms like Archer Daniels Midland, which salivates at the prospect of taking its agribusiness to Cuba
Prospecting for Fool’s Gold in Cuba — Again Read More »
Ninety miles from our southern border, one of the world’s wealthiest men (worth $1.4 billion, according to Forbes magazine) lives like a king, while his subjects, the Cuban people, live in abject poverty, facing chronic shortages of even the most basic commodities such as food, medicine, clothing and housing, writes Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D.,
Cuba — Our Terrorist Neighbor to the South Read More »
Fldel Castro has been the absolute ruler of Cuba for forty-two years, which brings him to the status of the longest ruling Marxist tyrant and most complete living villain in the world. In the bloody and painful, humiliating course of his criminal career as a lifelong Communist and sadist, his path has been marked by
Book Review of Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise. Reviewed by Otto Scott Read More »
Most of us who enjoy reading books concerning our world, especially those dealing with acts of courage arising from human tragedy, find a few works that have a lasting effect on our lives, not just because of the subject, but because of the way in which it is presented. Few writers can fill the reader
The Castro brothers’ hatred for the United States became immediately apparent upon gaining power in 1959. Fidel began making his long harangues against the United States, and the Cuban mobs so inspired began collectively composing such anti-American slogans as Cuba Si, Yanquis No! and Fidel seguro a los Yanquis dale duro! (“Fidel, for sure, hit
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