Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
08SAOPAULO80
2008-02-21 12:05:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO
VZCZCXYZ0004 OO RUEHWEB DE RUEHSO #0080 0521205 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 211205Z FEB 08 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
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
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."
White
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
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."
White