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From: "maria.gilmore" <maria.gilmore at netzero.net>
>
> I just wonder...it was triggered by Doug's question about how do
you
> maintain a socialist revolution in a place like Cuba, so close
to a giant of
> an enemy, without having to close your society and curtail civil
liberties
> to at least some extent. I wonder why the giant didn't swat
the gnat oh,
> say, 12 years ago. It could have been done, and with little
resistance
> from the US public, I think. In terms of power, the ONLY
reason Castro's
> Cuba exists is because the US suffers it. So what has stayed
the giant's
> hand?
>
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Proletarian populists sympathizers throughout "Latin" America?
Ian