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If I had the time, I could make an equally tendentious list about the
U.S. - we have our own Padilla affair, e.g. There’s just no
comparison between Cuba today and the USSR in the 30s.
This kind of high-minded social democracy never addresses how to deal
with the U.S. breathing down Cuba’s neck. Our government is at least
as responsible for repression in Cuba as is Cuba’s own.
Doug
On Jan 13, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:
Cuba is not Stalinist, or even Stalinoid. There aren’t show trials, routine executions, and massive numbers of people in prison. So drop the epithets.
Doug
The Padilla affair? See http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10580 An Open Letter to Fidel Castro signed by Sartre, J. Semprun a Spanish Communist who was imprisoned in a Nazi camp. (see his, “Literature or Life? Wrote the screenplay for Z.) The show trial of General Ochoa, hero of the intervention in Angola including the battle of Cuito Cuanavale which delivered a hammer blow to the South African apartheid regime? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=3816 The Trial that Shook Cuba The treatment of Carlos Franqui, a M-26 guerilla w/Fidel and numerous other revolutionary artists of the 60’s? (See Franqui’s memoir as well as the memoir of Allende’s Amb. to Cuba, J. edwards, “Persona Non Grata, ” reissued by Nation Books.) The turbas divinas (divine mobs) organized by CDR’s to harass democratic dissidents? http://www.therealcuba.com/Page7.htm The documentary, “No One Listened, ” by Cuban Nestor Almendros, which was a recipient of a prize from HRW, has much on the repression of Cuban leftists during the 60’s and 70’s. See it.
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