[dfwgator]

Communist regimes cannot survive losing a charismatic leader, unless it is a dynasty, like North Korea...Look what happened to Yugoslavia after Tito passed away.

[Slyfox]

The Cuban people have always had an appreciation for America.

[Buckeye McFrog]

When everyone who remained or has been born there since the early 60’s has been steeped in a daily brew of anti-American propaganda, its bound to have an effect.

[wardaddy]

yep

fraid so

especially in the short run

poor Jorge Mas Canosa

he might coulda rallied the exiles

now so many Cubans are democrats

young and sin juevos

[MasterGunner01]

Fidel Castro is still dead, Raul.

[driftless2]

Raul Castro:

"I wasn't installed er elected to put capitalism in place here....I'm here to make sure Cubans keep living in grinding, socialist poverty."

[LibFreeUSA]

This article is actually very correct, but the author could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by simply stating that for 54 years now, Cuba (the country and government) has been run entirely as a mafia by a mafia family, the Castros - the head ‘don’ being Fidel Castro, with Raul being head of ‘security’ for the last 54 years running, and only recently promoted to head ‘don’. There is no such thing as an “economy” in Cuba. It is “CUBA INC” run entirely under the control of the Castros. The “state” is nothing more than a figleaf cover for their entire mafia enterprise. The top government “officials” are all ‘appointed’ never elected, and they are all nothing more than mafia ‘bureaucrats’ at the control and whim of the Castros. So, when they say open up the “embargo”, all they mean is let’s deal with the Castros.

Besides, the Castros don’t NEED NOR WANT “open” U.S. Trade. If they did, they would lose a big ‘enemy to blame’ to mask their problems, they have enough trade with the rest of the 165 countries in the world.

[gdani]

Cubans (in Cuba) generally love Americans and talking about the U.S. They are careful to say they recognize the issues between our two countries are our governments do not get along, but the people do.

Cubans, by and large, want more personal freedom. But there are also aspects of socialism and the revolution they like (like universal healthcare & schooling) and do not want those to go away.