[news] Battle for the Future of Cuba After Castro

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The autonomous development of Cuba has been under threat since the revolution. US Inc. has never wavered in its opposition to this socialist thorn in its side. Forty years of communist rule have led to, by European standards, an authoritarian regime and yet side-by-side with the Latin American norm - a peasant economy dominated by a US-affiliated elite - it stands out as a triumph. Will Cuba stand by the progressive ideals of 1959 or bend its knee to a weak puppet democracy?

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