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Solidarity, exemplified: the amazing story of the Czechs and the Cubans.(Abroad)

National Review

| March 14, 2005 | Nordlinger, Jay | COPYRIGHT 2005 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

'I AM not one of Fidel Castro's favorite people," said Vaclav Havel in February 2001. The millennium is still young, but that should end up one of its greatest understatements. The former Czech president--and still the guiding spirit in that country--is a constant irritant to the Castro dictatorship, even a threat. So is the Czech government at large. Indeed, ordinary Cubans have no better friends than the Czechs, and their relationship makes an amazing story.

That relationship was highlighted by recent events within the European Union. In January, the EU moved to lift sanctions it had imposed on Castro in 2003. This was after the dictator's brutal crackdown, ...

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