Old school headline of the day: 'Cuba says dissident died of natural causes'

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 11:19 AM Share

It will be a better world when we can no longer see headlines like that. I am amazed that Castro has hung on so long. I suspect that our embargo has helped keep him in power.

Cuba may be the sleeper that becomes a very big story in the next few years. Americans have been cut off from it for so long that they think it is a small island. It is not. 

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DOUBLEM

5:53 PM ET

May 11, 2011

Cuba in the next two years

When old Fuzz Face finally passes on to the Cosmic Workers Paradise, one of two things will happen: (1) Cuba will become the 51st State; or (2) Florida will become the 16th Province of Cuba.

 

BEARCAT

9:01 PM ET

May 11, 2011

58 Ford Fairlane

When Cuba opens up I'm getting a car just like we had when I was a kid.

 

GRANT

10:27 PM ET

May 12, 2011

And the majority of Raul's

And the majority of Raul's reform efforts seem to be leading him to put more power in the hands of the military. This is not how you reform a system, this is how you shift inefficiency and corruption from one group to another.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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