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From: tpkq@charm.UUCP (Timothy Kerwin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Fidel on US, Latin America
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Date: Thu, 19-Jan-84 23:41:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 19 23:41:47 1984
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	"Today the U.S. can indulge in the luxury of invading Grenada,
of blockading economically and threatening two small countries like
Cuba and Nicaragua, and of showing its claws and teeth in El Salvador
and Central America.  But the system of imperialist rule in Latin
America is in crisis.  The right-wing military dictatorships in Chile,
Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries, the last bastions of
capitalism and imperialism, have failed miserably, bringing these
countries to a state of ruin and economic collapse. . .

	"Structural and social changes are inevitable and will come
sooner or later.  And the more serious and unresolvable the long-term
crisis is, the more profound the changes will be.

	"Cuba cannot export revolution any more than the United States
can stop it.  Do they think that perhaps in the future they will be
able to blockade and invade the whole of Latin America?  Does Reagan
think Brazil is the size of Grenada?"

					- Fidel Castro
					  Jan. 1, 1984