Whats wrong with Cuba?
published: Sunday | August 6, 2006 Ian Boyne The jubilant, celebratory scenes of large numbers of Cuban exiles greeting the news of Castro’s ceding power, even temporarily, is at once pathetic and telling. It is tragic that humans could be hopeful of someone’s death, but equally tragic that under totalitarian rule that is usually the only way to engender change. Cuba has been America’s longest nightmare. Long before Libya, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and Syria became a problem, and long after the Soviet Union and China have ceased to be worrying concerns, Cuba has been more than a small embarrassment to U.S. hegemonic designs. The embargo which America imposed in 1961, was supposed to crush the regime and remove its scourge from the Western Hemisphere. No such luck. It was because of Cuba why the world came close to a nuclear disaster in the infamous Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. stubbornly enduring America’s Cuba problem has proven to be stubbornly enduring. It is, therefore, not just th
