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- From: rravelo@asturias.acs.uci.edu (Ray Ravelo)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
- Subject: Re: Re-Salas
- Message-ID: <2B111746.7880@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:39:18 GMT
- References: <41016@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1992Nov15.231711.28357@spss.com> <19424@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- In article <19424@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes:
- >Mark Rosenfelder writes:
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- >>Edelmiro's opinions are nothing new in Latin America either. In their
- >>knee-jerk opposition to communism and subservience to the US, they are
- >>mostly the views of the governing elites.
- >
- >You mean the democratically elected governing elites. Now I understand why
- >neo-communists are against neo-liberals in L.A.: they fear democracy will put
- >the masses in control, when in fact they should have some rebel anti yankee
- >dictator in touch with Havanna leading their cause.
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- Right on Edelmiro, not only now but for a long time they'd been afraid
- of democracy. Even in Cuba the communist party supported Batista and were
- against Castro, of course, once Castro took power then they got on the
- bandwagon and ended up stealing the revolution from the Cuban people.
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- Ray I. Ravelo "We're your opposition, Mr. Castro, we 10 million
- Office of Academic Computing. Cubans who look around us in terror"
- UC, Irvine. from the open letter to Castro by M.E. Cruz-Varela
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