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Cuba: Fear of Change?

Monday, June 29th, 2009 @ 12:42 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Cuba
Topics:: Ideas, Media, Youth, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

“Like the seemingly never ending US blockade that attacks Cuba’s economy from without, from the inside a corrosion process is gradually eating away at the relatively young 50-year revolution”: From Havana, Circles Robinson says that “there is a conservative political class of managers at most workplaces and government offices who fear and resist any attempts to change the status quo.”

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[...] “Like the seemingly never ending US blockade that attacks Cuba’s economy from without, from the inside a corrosion process is gradually eating away at the relatively young 50-year revolution”: From Havana, Circles Robinson says that “there is a conservative political class of managers at most workplaces and government offices who fear and resist any attempts [...] http://topics.latimes.com/world/countries/cuba.atom Go to article [...]

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