Tuesday, 02.19.08
After Castro
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Fidel Castro
19 February 2008
A collection of Atlantic writings on Castro.
Bay of Capitalist Pigs
19 February 2008
Graeme Wood on Havan's post-Castro future.
Havana's Military Machine
August 1988
El Jefe's departure from power on his own terms almost twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall is perhaps the starkest reminder yet of what a dismal failure America's Cuba policy has been. Despite (or more plausibly in part because of) the unremitting hostility of the superpower next door, Castro succeeded in creating the world's most successful Communist regime. New waves of non-Cuban leftists have been growing disillusioned with the dictator for decades, but U.S. policy has allowed the regime to invariably maintain a hefty focus on America's persecution of him and the people he governs, rather than his persecution of the domestic opposition. Meanwhile, substantial portions of U.S. policy remain formally tied not to improvements in the Cuban human rights situation, but the Miami exile Community's quixotic efforts to secure the return of property acquired during the previous dictatorship and confiscated in the late 1950s.
Viva Leninismo!Chris Bertram celebrates Castro for standing up to American imperialism, and he defends Cuba's socialist experiment.. |
Impoverished CubaBrad DeLong covers the ground Cuba has lost since 1957, when it was firmly in the ranks of affluent, developed countries. |
Raul the SurvivorIn an interview, Otto Reich tells us to expect economic reforms from Cuba's new maximum leader, Fidel's brother Raul. |
