Tag Archives: Castro

Cuba’s Economic Surrealism

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Jose Azel

In his economic dreamland of surrealist juxtapositions and non-sequiturs, with visions free from conscious rationality, General Castro believes that improved state management is the way to save Cuba’s communist system. The hostility toward individual freedoms and success embodied in his … Continue reading →

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Castro, Obama and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Jose Azel

Cuba, the non-cooperative betraying criminal, received the favorable treatment of being rewarded with U.S. diplomatic relations. And, the accommodatingly silent Obama administration ought to be harshly sentenced in the court of public opinion for its failure to act in the … Continue reading →

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American tourists will not bring democracy to Cuba

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Jaime Suchlicki

There is no evidence to support the notion that engagement with a totalitarian state will bring about its demise. Only academic ideologues and some members of Congress interested in catering to the economic needs of their state’s constituencies cling to … Continue reading →

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