At 01:47 PM 3/18/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Anybody have any thoughts on this?
>

The thing that is going ot happen when Fidel Castro dies is that there is
going to be another invasion--mebbe not "armed" (tho' mebbe so), but an
invasion in any case, the whole import and intention of which will be to
undo ALL the social advances that the Cuban regime has wrought in the
countryside, for the purposes of handing the country back over to the
aristocrats and oligarchs who fled the revolution. It will be told as the
"glorious re-establishment of freedom and market economy in Cuba, and the
entire resources of the US propaganda machine--read, the press--will be
ginned uyp to hype the events. There'll be parades, fiestas, new cars on the
streets, and a LOT of gringos showing up to spend money on the "delights" of
Habana. The local representatives of the current regime will be ejected from
office, some will be mysteriously "disappeared," and the lackeys and
lick-spittles of the Mas-Canosas (late and unlamented) and Ros-Leytenons,
etc, will descend upon the island like a plague of locusts. Not a single
leader of th "new" Cuba will be black, not one will be from the countryside.
COunt on it.
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