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Totalitarian countries, however, are better at withstanding trade sanctions than democracies are at imposing them. Fidel Castro's regime, for one, has easily survived a 29-year ban on selling sugar, cigars or anything else...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
...would be wrong, however, to assume this discontent will translate into the demise of Castro and Cuba's brand of tropical socialism. While some 175 million live in poverty in Latin America, there are no beggars on the streets of Havana. The infant mortality rate is 10.7 per 1,000 births, in contrast to 60 before the revolution. "We see socialism is difficult to achieve, but capitalism isn't the answer either," says Sierra Wald, 17. "Nobody wants % Fidel to step down. People worry about what might happen without him." Young Cubans increasingly see themselves as the last idealists...
...over Paradise, the students gathered for a ceremony that ended with Castro's latest call to arms: Socialismo o Muerte! -- socialism or death. There was a barely audible laugh at the choice, but the answer came back: "Socialismo...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Sue Raffety, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...