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Castro the crook. (Other Countries).
Mark Falcoff, "Castro's Gambit," in Commentary, June 2003 (commentary.org)
In April 2003, Fidel Castro's Cuban regime arrested over 70 human rights activists, put them on "trial" (with no effective defense allowed), and sentenced them to terms as long as 20 years. In an overview of the situation in Cuba, AEI resident scholar Mark Falcoff sees a regime that, although communist in name and vision, has a great deal in common with the right-wing Latin American klepto-cracies that the United States sometimes supported during the Cold War.
While Cuban society was once radically egalitarian (everyone lived in poverty with the exception of a few Communist Party bosses and gangsters) the modest opening of the economy created when Castro legalized possession of dollars has created huge wealth disparities. Those with relatives in the United States--mostly white Cubans--can enjoy some middle class luxuries while the island's black population lives in utter poverty.
For most of the population, and Afro-Cubans in particular, the situation is dire: The economy is in ...
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