«Cuba the 51st State?»
Unter «Cuba the 51st State? Close but no cigar» hat The Times ein meines Erachtens sensationelles Porträt des aktuellen Kuba veröffentlicht. Ein kleiner Ausszug:
Such is Cuba — where nothing works, but it does so with superb efficiency: where there is no food but you can eat like a king: where the main international airport has no-smoking signs outnumbered only by ashtrays: where no one knows what’s happening but everyone can tell you: and where the debilitating illness of the world’s longest serving leader has ignited a worldwide firestorm of speculation over the country’s future, except in Cuba, where no one seems unduly concerned.Und noch die Antwort zur Frage im Titel, ob Kuba zum 51. Bundesstaat der USA werden wird:
Over dinner in Havana one night I chatted to Walter Lippmann, a Los Angeles journalist who writes, edits and collates news and comment about Cuba for an internet newslist. “This country has a lot of problems,” he said. “The solution to none of them lies 90 miles north of here.”
He’s right. Cubans chose Fidel Castro. And Cubans will choose his successor.
