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Article: For Castro's Cloistered Realm, No Glasnost Yet
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- The Washington Post
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- July 31, 1988
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For more than a year now, Cubans struggling to comprehend such
exotic Russian words as perestroika and glasnost and the great
changes said to be taking place in the Soviet heartland have been
hotly speculating about just how much socialist reform might come to
Cuba.
Now they know. Next to none.
"We must not play or flirt with capitalist things," they have
been told by Cuban leader Fidel Castro in his clearest statement on
the matter to date. "That is complete garbage."
Cuba has its own problems and requires "a different course,"
Castro said in a three-hour speech Tuesday marking the 35th
anniversary of the start of the revolution that brought him to power
in 1959.
He disdained the sorts ...