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Will Barack Obama Meet the Real, Invisible Cubans?

PASSIVE RESISTANCE

As the U.S. president continues his historic visit to Cuba, he will be surrounded by a culture of oppression and quiet, vindictive resistance, but he probably won’t notice.

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The rain was coming down so heavily you’d have thought you could swim through it. I’d just landed in Havana on one of my first trips there in the early 1980s, and been met by Olga, the minder who’d be my guide and guard for the next several days.

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