WAITING GAME Five decades after the revolution, the disappointments of the past haunt relatives split apart. Sven Creutzmann/Mambo Photo, via Getty ImagesFrom The New York Times:
I first set foot in Havana 30 years ago because Jimmy Carter thought he could end the tensions that had torn apart millions of families, including my own. It seemed like a new beginning, but it turned out to be more of the same old story about Cuba and the United States.
Time and again Fidel Castro has taken an American overture or challenge and, using a Fidelista jujitsu, turned it to his own advantage. In the process, countless families like mine have been whipsawed between hope and despair.
Mr. Castro’s enduring tactic has been to fit each initiative to his revolutionary script of a brave Cuba resisting the giant United States. Framed that way, attempts to bring down the regime strengthened it. Efforts to democratize Cuba left freedoms further restricted. Presidents came and went, but the constants were disappointment, and Fidel.
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