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Cuban dissidents make noise—oops, news
U.S. government hypocrisy has grown so pervasive over the last decades that it provokes yawns and glazed looks. Senators denounce government interference in health care while partaking in their own top of the line government health insurance that they designed at taxpayer expense. Secretary of State Clinton demanded Pakistani leaders remove terrorists from their streets while self-proclaimed anti-Castro terrorists parade down Miami’s thoroughfares as freedom fighters, of course.
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Cuba After Castro
Reporters and friends keep asking: “so what’ll happen when Castro dies?” “A big funeral in Havana,” I reply with certainty.
One other sure thing: Anti-Castro exiles in south Florida will throw a mammoth party. On July 31, Fidel revealed he would have surgery and ceded temporarily responsibilities to his brother Ra l. Little Havana’s streets erupted in celebration. Politically, Fidel again showed his ability to induce obsession in his enemies, thus making it difficult for them to think clearly apart from questions of bad taste. Fidel’s stature will continue to cloud south Florida’s political reality.
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