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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Interesting article, thanks for your post.
6 posted on 03/22/2003 3:33:52 AM PST by PGalt
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***Of particular sadness is Castro's success at playing the race card. He's got much of this country believing that he has been good for black Cubans. (I once did a piece on this subject: "In Castro's Corner: A story of black and red.") "Castro learned very early on the power of the race issue," Lincoln Diaz-Balart explains. "His sociological base was always elite, anti-Republic, and racist." The dictator Batista was actually a mulatto, and Castro was the Spaniards' "Great White Hope." As dictator, Castro has instituted a system of apartheid, whereby only foreigners and certain carefully vetted Cubans can enter particular hotels, hospitals, and beaches. Furthermore, many of the leading political prisoners and oppositionists are black. Castro's reputation as a racial liberal and redeemer seems a cruel, ghastly joke to the Diaz-Balarts.***Source

International educators conference held in Cuba [Full Text] HAVANA - President Fidel Castro told a group of educators from around the world that education can create a better world by helping to resolve social problems, such as the nagging racial discrimination that still exists in Cuba. Closing the international educators conference here on Friday night, Castro told hundreds of participants that over four decades his socialist government can boast high marks for its primary school programs. But he said secondary education here needs serious improvement.

Beginning in early 2002, Cuba launched a campaign to improve conditions at its primary schools, but reforms for the older students are still pending. Cuba's secondary school program will be radically improved, Castro declared. "The future developing of our education will have enormous political, social and human connotations," the Cuban leader said.

Despite the huge changes that the 1959 revolution made in Cuban society, some social problems have not been completely eliminated, including racial discrimination, Castro acknowledged. "While science shows unquestionably the real equality that exists among human beings, discriminations lives on," especially among the island's poorest groups, Castro said. [End]

NYTimes - Behind the Upheaval in Venezuela *** Mr. Chávez, with his tan skin and curly dark hair, embodies the racial mixture of Venezuela. Some 67 percent of the people here are mestizos, a mixed race of the whites, blacks and Indians who are the nation's minorities.

7 posted on 03/22/2003 3:58:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: PGalt
The leftist current in Latin America is thanks to years of propaganda from Castro and the neglect of Clinton. Castro was 100% Spanish and Babtista was a mulatto. This is NY times spin at its' finest.
10 posted on 03/22/2003 5:18:53 AM PST by mgist
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