Island Of Failed Promises: Younger Cubans have waited all their lives for Fidel to deliver. And now?

Most Cubans have been waiting all their lives for those promises to be met. Although the lot of some older Cubans may have been improved by the revolution that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista in January 1959, an estimated 70 percent of Cuba's 11.3 million people weren't even born then....

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Published in:Newsweek 2008-03, Vol.151 (9), p.30
Main Author: Contreras, Joseph
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Castro, Fidel
Dictators
Internet access
Political dissent
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Summary:Most Cubans have been waiting all their lives for those promises to be met. Although the lot of some older Cubans may have been improved by the revolution that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista in January 1959, an estimated 70 percent of Cuba's 11.3 million people weren't even born then. Younger Cubans now mostly identify Fidelismo with hardship, especially those who, like Sánchez, came of age during the 1990s.
ISSN:0028-9604
1069-840X