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A Century of Conflict |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--CUBA AFTER CASTRO |
| Author: Mark Falcoff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 1,520 Words, 9,836 Characters |
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In 1946--to pick a date at random--no country in Latin America was more closely tied to the United States than Cuba. The issue was not merely geographical propinquity, for not even Mexico came this close. Whether in baseball or women's fashions, music or movies, automobiles or breakfast cereals, what for Cubans--rich, not-so-rich, and poor alike--was modern, up-to-date, and desirable was North American; what was Spanish or Latin American was second rate and not worthy of real consideration. vbcrlfThe flip side of this coin was the sense that the United States was so powerful on the island, indeed, nearly omnipotent, that nothing ever happened there--nothing, certainly, of any real importance--without its permission. Therefore, Cuba's failure to fully replicate the "American way of life" w...
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...n country angling for U.S. attention and aid. With it, Cuba has access to priceless political and economic assets. Through the human bridge represented by its own diaspora, Cuba thus stands an excellent chance of closing the gap of geopolitics and cultural misunderstanding with the United States and, in so doing, finally bringing nearly a century of conflict to a quiet and dignified close. vbcrlf
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