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Fidel Castro: Born Again, Even as Cuba Tastes Capitalism
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyAfter a long illness and absence from public life, former Cuban President Fidel Castro is back in the spotlight and engaged in what looks like serious legacy building. In a wide-ranging interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, Castro apologizes for his regime's treatment of gay people, condemns anti-Semitism and owns up to the failures of Cuba's economic system. Goldberg writes that he was vacationing on the "People's Republic of Martha's Vineyard" when he got a call that Castro wanted to see him in Havana. Goldberg quipped that he was eager to see an even more socialist ...
Ten Reasons to Lift the Cuba Embargo
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBack when I worked as a producer for Chicago Public Radio in the early part of the decade, we would periodically revisit the question of whether to do a show on Cuba. Every year, the same anniversaries would roll around -- Fidel Castro's 1959 overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista government, President Kennedy's failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- and every year we'd invariably conclude that things really weren't changing enough to warrant an update. What a difference a few years makes. As my colleague Luisita Lopez Torregrosa reported back in May, the Obama administration has been working ...
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