Castro Forced Many to Live a Life In Exile- What’s Next for Cuba?
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In exile. My parent’s first car in the U.S., a DKW. Notice that my parents came to Miami without a cent.
In exile with family friends. Notice the address: NW 61 Avenue, this is now part of the Sweetwater neighborhood
What’s next for Cuba?
1. Things will remain the same.
Raul Castro and his government have been in power for six years. Fidel was, for all intent and purposes, not important.
2. Things will change.
The aperture of the U.S. to Cuba is now irreversible. US companies have begun transacting with Cuba and even the usually-conservative Cuban exile in Miami is divided.
Old timers, the “cagalitrosos”, yearn for the embargo in spite of no evidence that it actually worked in half a century. Modern progressives know that the way to destroy communism is through money. Look at East Germany.
By the way, Cuba already gets 3.1 million tourists a year and all our European allies do business with it.
3. People will put up with all sorts of crap.
It is a black stain on Cubans that Fidel, despite all the machismo posturing and shouting out of Miami died in bed. But… he joins Stalin (Stroke), Mao (Parkinson’s), Franco (surrounded by his “Equipo Medico Habitual”), and Chavez (Cancer) in dying in his own sweet time.
I’ve read polls where 32% of Cubans in Cuba support the Castros; Chavez actually won elections four times.
4. We must be vigilant.
Modern dictatorships work by stripping away your rights a little bit at a time and always in the search for the “greater good”. So, all of a sudden, well… no, you can’t really photograph cops anymore; you can’t really publish that newspaper anymore; you can’t really see that movie anymore… until all of a sudden, you don’t have any rights.
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