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Article: Desperation Island.(Cuba: The Morning After -- Confronting Castro's Legacy)(Book Review)
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- October 13, 2003
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Cuba: The Morning After -- Confronting Castro's Legacy, by Mark Falcoff (AEI, 285 pp., $25)
Just as Franco died, and Tito died, and Grandma Moses died, Castro will die -- as unlikely as it seems some days. He has ruled Cuba for 45 years now. It so happens that this is the same amount of time that Communists ruled Eastern Europe. As Mark Falcoff points out in this new book, Castro has reigned over Cuba for almost half of the country's independent existence. (Some independence.)
Falcoff is maybe the premier conservative scholar on Latin America, and by "conservative" I really mean democratic, and forthrightly anti- authoritarian. He is as clear-eyed as ...