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Open Cuba Doesn’t Mean Free Cuba

Left Illusions

Obama thinks that repression in the Castro regime will decrease as a result of contact with the U.S. He’s wrong.

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HAVANA, CUBA — Perusing the drab shop fronts in Havana, resplendent with fly-blown posters of Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and other “heroes of the revolution,” I alighted on the self-evident problem with communism: Communist economies produce not what the worker needs but what a government bureaucrat has decided to make...

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