Zitat von Yoani Sánchez

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What Will Happen to Cuba? Will We Become Another Haiti? Another Athens?
Exclusive to Huffington Post.

In January 1959, a group of young men detonated a revolution in Cuba. Their leaders, in their thirties, and the ideas they brought, transformed everything, and they had the aroma of novelty. Fifty years later, those irreverent long-hairs are in their eighties or close to it, and don't want to change anything. Those of us born after that mythical January have found a country where there is no opportunity for an ordinary citizen to influence the political direction. The former rebels have become powerful old men and have dismantled, one by one, the civic paths that once enabled them to organize their victorious dream.

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