Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done … - Mark Falcoff

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THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

Mark Falcoff

Most people who know Cuba think Raul [Castro] would like to make more changes but has not done so yet because his brother, who is ideologically opposed to them, is still alive. What he will do when Fidel dies remains to be seen.

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Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about. "

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The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

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As long as Fidel Castro is alive we [the American Government] will not normalize relations with Cuba. We don't want it, and he certainly doesn't.

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