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Cuba's Growing Crisis |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Kenneth N. Skoug, Jr. |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 5,709 Words, 34,196 Characters |
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Thirty years ago, two remarkable revolutionary figures were struggling for existence in the Caribbean region. It was an era when the democratic ideals of the wartime and postwar period were challenging military dictators and oligarchical, tradition-based societies.
One of these individuals, Romulo Betancourt, was eluding the grasp of the Perez Jiminez dictatorship in Venezuela, a state that had known the rule of strongmen throughout most of its century and a half of existence. On January 23, 1958, with the help of progressive military officers, the regime in Caracas was overthrown and parliamentary democracy rapidly introduced. Betancourt was elected president, served a five-year term, and then permanently left office, living modestly thereafter as a leader of the social democratic...
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...d this nightmare of persecution. Unfortunately, there is still no sign that this will soon occur. Far from running out of political prisoners, the system creates them anew. Until Cuba recognizes that the way out of its crisis is not through new adjurations of orthodoxy but through recognition of the creative genius of the unfettered human conscience, Cuba will remain beyond rectification.
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