[lbo-talk] Cuban HDI

[Brad DeLong]

>  >Well, the simple answer is to do good and not evil. To build a Cuba
>>in which there is freedom of speech. To build a political society in
>>which Cubans can debate and discuss and decide on their own destiny,
>>rather than to build yet another despotism that has already lost its
>>claims to be 'enlightened'.
>
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>I approve. And how do you propose to keep the United States off 
>their backs while they are building this paradise? As soon as there 
>is a 20% chance that the US will leave Cuba alone, I will devote my 
>political career to supporting the Cuban people's popular movement 
>against Castro's very real tyranny.

What do you think Clinton's attitude toward Cuba was?

Brad DeLong