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Warsaw, Poland

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Chavez Offers More of the Same: Populism and Poverty

Warsaw, Poland - It is up to eleven million Cubans living on the island and two million emigrants and refugees to decide whether or not they want to adopt a system based on freedom, democracy and pluralism....

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Populism is not democracy, populism is what has caused so much poverty and economic crisis in latin America.

Many people criticize the liberal economic reforms carried out in Mexico in the last 15 years and the NAFTA agreement, yet these things caused our country to develop a broad export industry of manufactured goods. Today our country dependancy on oil exports has gone down to a mere 14 % of our exports. It is still high but compared to what Hugo Chavez had done in Venezuela, where the dependancy on oil exports has grown to some 92 % of their economy. That is a tragedy and a total dependecy on the price of oil.

Ania Z.:

Ms. Luczywo needs to look at her own country before she lectures other nations. Poland is controlled by the dictatorial and authoritarian Catholic Church and run by its conservative lunatic president, Lech Kaczynski. Before Ms. Luczywo preaches freedom, democracy, and freedom to Cuba, she should first look at Poland and ask herself the same question: what will Poland choose, freedom and democracy or authoritarianism.

Jonathan Piegnet:

It pains me to read that so many experts can be so ignorant of United States / Latin American history. Luczywo hopes the U.S. will respect Cuba, but I pray the U.S. will not crush Cuban Independence like it did in 1898. The United States since then has only offered Cuba and Latin America the status quo of poverty and misery for the majority, and protection and welfare for the elite. While the U.S. offers military aid and training (School of the Americas), coups (scores), fascist dictators (Pinochet and Neo-Nazi generals in Argentina and Brazil), and even genocide (200,000 dead in Guatemala since mid-1970s), Hugo Chavez offers hope through integration. Chavez may be a populist, but isn't that democracy? However, it is not "the road to freedom" espoused by Washington and feared by its survivors.

rk:

The obsession of the U.S. government with Cuba,
along with China's with Tawain, are
emblematic of two large & powerful
countries who, mostly for their own
populations education, refuse to let
the past alone. The message is clear: "We never forgive & we never
forget"

Gray:

"she should have recomended for cuba the polish success story..."
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NATHAN FRIEDMA:

the polish journalist was too modest....she should have recomended for cuba the polish success story....

jonathon:

Helena Luczywo is a reactionary against Chavez, whom she no doubt considers as some form of communist. TShe is nor unlike many Poles who suffered under the former communist regime. Luczywo is projecting her own biases on others.

Chavez and Morales and Lula are no communists, and the Bolivarian model of socialism is original, radical and far from isolationst: it is building strong links with its neioghboursm and winning their sympathy on the strength of the ideological and political position.

Cuba should do what is in the best interest of the majority of its people - it should therefore stay as far away from any US administration as possible.

The US has proven to the people of Cuba that it cares not on jot for them, by punishing them with 50 years of economic sanctions that have put hardship on the people that we can barely imagine. Bush has managed to find another way to hurt the poor by banning the sending of remittances to family members - the Cubans will not forget these actions.

Jonathan Kolm:

If by "What Chavez has to offer is...isolation" you mean isolation by the United States, you're quite right. Although, it might behoove us to ponder why we've attempted to isolate Chavez. Though certainly not a model leader, he is admired in many parts of the world (Iran just bestowed on him a national award) precisely because he is seen as standing up to a belligerent United States that is attempting to force it's will on the world. And, given our track record in Latin America over the last hundred years or so (highlights, or lowlights depending on your point of view, include the CIA planned and executed coups that overthrew democratically elected governments in Guatemala and Chile in 1954 and 1973, respectively), one could scarcely blame leaders like Chavez for attempting to limit United States influence in the Hemisphere where James Monroe (Madison actually) famously stated no one else had the right to meddle.

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