Article: Looking Backward at Fidel Castro

From my perspective as deputy coordinator and acting coordinator of Cuban affairs in the Carter State Department and as a member of the task force dealing with the Mariel boatlift of 1980, I found the problem with Bernard Aronson's Aug. 17 op-ed piece to be that it overlooked everything we have learned and experienced with Fidel Castro for more than a third of a century. Each time an administration, Republican or Democratic, has made concessions to Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro has hit us again.

Richard Nixon announced conditions for improving relations with Cuba, which were in a sense less stringent than those of his predecessors or even those of most successors. Unlike Jimmy Carter ...

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