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March 27, 2012

A Cuban Cardinal's Dirty Dissident Deal

Myriam Marquez, Miami Herald

It will take “patience and decisiveness.” So says the pope about changing Cuba’s 53-year-old Marxist dictatorship.

No problem, responds Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez from Havana. Cuba, he maintains, “is a democratic social project . . . which is constantly perfecting itself.”


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