Cuba’s Lifeline
In response to your editorial “The Last Days of Soviet Lifeline,” Sept. 8:
Some of the benefits of Cuban socialism that you questioned are: no unemployment, no homelessness, the highest health and educational standards in all of Latin America and the lowest infant mortality rates.
Fidel Castro’s appeal to his people and to people worldwide is not based on narrow nationalism as you state but on internationalism as manifested by the sending of thousands of doctors, agricultural experts, technicians, etc., to aid the underdeveloped countries. Thanks to Cuban military aid the people of Angola were able to defeat the South African invasion of their country and win independence.
No, Castro does not “have to play by the same rules” dictated to the underdeveloped countries in the Western Hemisphere by the transnational corporations who are exploiting their natural resources and cheap labor!
SAMUEL HOFBERG, La Jolla
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