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Freedom House Ratings, Freedom in the World 2003
2003: Political Rights: 7, Civil Liberties: 7, Status: Not Free, Economy: Statist |
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Movie Critics Aghast at Andy Garcia's The Lost City, by Humberto Fontova, 2 May 2006
"The Anti-Batista rebellion was led and staffed overwhelmingly by Cuba's middle – and especially, upper – class. To wit: in August of 1957 Castro's rebel movement called for a 'National Strike' against the Batista dictatorship – and threatened to shoot workers who reported to work. The 'National Strike' was completely ignored." |
| A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 1, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, May 1999 |
| A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 2, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Jul 1999 |
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| A Libertarian Visits Cuba, Part 3, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Aug 1999 |
Castro Gets Stoned, by Emiliano Antunez, Strike The Root, 5 Apr 2004
About the HBO documentary Looking for Fidel, directed by Oliver Stone. |
Che at the Marches, by Humberto Fontova, 29 May 2006
"The result was ... an economy formerly stronger than half of Europe's nations, crumpled into a smoldering ash heap. ... The Soviets ended up pumping the equivalent of eight Marshall Plans into Cuba. And Cuba was not a war-ravaged continent of 300 million in 1960. It was a nation of 6.5 million [whose] citizens formerly earned more than Taiwan's, Japan's and Spain's." |
How to Hurt Castro, by Jeff Flake, New York Times, 12 May 2003
"A genuine get-tough policy with Cuba would export something Americans know a little about: freedom. Let's get rid of travel license applications altogether. ... We should heed this advice and end the American policy of Soviet-style travel controls. All Americans should be free to go to Cuba without government interference." |
U.S. Hypocrisy in Cuba, by Jacob G. Hornberger, 26 May 2006
Related Topic: Socialism
"The U.S. Special Interest Section in Havana recently built a propaganda billboard for the Cuban people to read. One of its posted messages read, 'In a free country you don't need permission to leave the country. Is Cuba a free country?' Now, what better example of hypocrisy than that? ... But the hypocrisy is even worse than that. ..." |
Improve the CIA? Better to abolish it, by Chalmers Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb 2004
Related Topics: Foreign Entanglements, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, United States, Vietnam
Lists countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency. |
The Spanish-American War: The Leap into Overseas Empire, Part 1, by Joseph R. Stromberg, Freedom Daily, Dec 1998
Related Topics: Spain, Imperialism, Philippines |
The Spanish-American War: The Leap into Overseas Empire, Part 2, by Joseph R. Stromberg, Freedom Daily, Jan 1999
Related Topics: Spain, Imperialism, Philippines |
Totalitarian Busybodies: The horrors of the Stasi’s East Germany, by Glenn Garvin, Reason, Jan 2006
Related Topics: Germany, Nicaragua
Review of Stasiland: True Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder and After the Wall: Confessions from an East German Childhood and the Life That Came Next by Jana Hensel
"In ... Cuba ..., the [government] created watch committees on every block ... called Committees for the Defense of the Revolution ... They encouraged neighbors to engage in 'revolutionary vigilance'—that is, to rat out one another for anything ... that seemed suspicious or contrary to the regime's moral and political orthodoxies." |
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