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Amid Worries, Cuba To Mark 50 Years Of Revolution

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« on: December 31, 2008, 09:19:10 am »









But at the same time, Raul had to notice that his Brazilian host, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - who is supposedly the Castros' leftist soulmate and head of Brazil's Workers Party - is arguably Latin America's most acclaimed capitalist leader today. Capitalism's excesses get deservedly excoriated for causing today's global catastrophe. But even Venezuela, which helps prop up Cuba's economy with cut-rate oil, has made it clear in recent elections that it's not the socialist hotbed that its own left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, dreams of. Yes, the hypocritical drill among Latin leaders is that they censure Washington publicly but Havana privately. Still, most of them believe Cuba is as out of step with the rest of the Americas as the U.S. is.


Which isn't to say that the Cuban Revolution doesn't deserve its due. It overthrew one of Latin America's most putrid dictators, championed the poor (still a rare thing to do in Latin America) and showed the U.S. that its worst Monroe Doctrine impulses (not to mention the Mafia that was overrunning Cuba then) could be thwarted. People do buy Che Guevara T-shirts for more than just the lefty chic. The Miami exiles (many of whom actually backed Fidel before he went communist) deserve their props too, despite the Elian Gonzalez mess. Most were not corrupt oligarchs and gusanos (worms, as Fidel called them) but an industrious working and middle class that helped build modern Miami. In December, the Miami Herald unveiled an online database that gives the exiles an Ellis Island-style history of their arrivals in the U.S.


No one should begrudge respect for Cubans on either side of the Straits - not those who died in prisons fighting Batista nor those who died on rafts escaping Castro. But after 50 years it's time to stop reliving the Bay of Pigs.
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