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Misunderstood Cousin. For 13 days, Che had been wheeling, dealing, and stealing the scene at Punta del Este without provoking a U.S. reply. Only too well aware that support is being organized throughout the hemisphere to ostracize Castro's Communist dictatorship, Che set out to show that Cuba is still a member of the hemispheric family. He proved himself an able tactician, here offering a "helpful" resolution, there playing the misunderstood cousin, everywhere extending well-mannered coexistence. Nuzzling up to Brazilian Delegate Clemente Mariani, Che was well rewarded by a Mariani public statement gushing over "how encouraging...
When Che heard that Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Beltran was trying to put through a clause in the Declaration of Punta del Este that would clearly exclude the Cuban dictatorship from the alliance, Che dropped around uninvited to the meeting room, stirred up quite a commotion trying to get in, then withdrew looking hurt. In the end, at Brazil's insistence, Beltran's proposals were watered down to a mere stated preference for representative democracy. It was Che himself who then placed Cuba squarely outside the hemisphere alliance of the other 20 nations by refusing to sign...
...before they died. When Clisante's body was turned over to his relatives, the head was beaten almost to a pulp. An enraged mob burst into the hospital morgue, draped a Dominican flag over the corpse, and paraded it through the streets, crying "Liberty! Down with dictatorship!" Another crowd started pegging rocks at police, were finally dispersed when the cops fired over their heads...
...frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy; the reader feels Mah could equally well be blundering through the tumultuous 13th century China described in the picaresque classic, Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain...
Khrushchev's final promise was that "the present generation of Soviet people will live under Communism." On that day of the true "classless society," according to Marx, the state is supposed to wither away. Khrushchev makes no such promise. "The party holds," he says, "that the dictatorship of the working class [i.e., party] will cease to be necessary before the state withers away." But "to ensure that the state withers away" completely will require "the final settlement of the contradictions between capitalism and Communism in the world arena in favor of Communism." Shrimps will whistle first, comrades...