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08SAOPAULO80
2008-02-21 12:05:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
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MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO

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FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7923
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 9073
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 8592
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 3031
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000080

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STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD

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USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO


"Without Fidel, Tensions Will Worsen In Cuba"

Business-oriented Valor Economico (2/21) editorialized: "Cuba will
not be the same after Fidel Castro's resignation. The Cuban
Stalinist regime, which was isolated by the will of its enemies,
especially the US, and by its leaders' ideology, has remote chances
of survival.... Without Fidel, the already existing intolerable
tensions will worsen. The socialist experience became a
dictatorship of State and failed. The only way out is an opening to
be conducted by a group of bureaucrats who do not have the
dictator's charisma or popularity.... The US economic embargo is
mortal for Cuba's economy.... Equality in poverty is an efficient
but not eternal antidote to a situation that, looking to the future,
is desperate."
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