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In response to
"don't they mostly have an attitude of pulling up the ladder behind them? -- nm"
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Reagen
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not exactly. most of the people she knows left around the collapse of the USSR. saw that ship going down and decided it wouldn't go well for Cuba.
Posted by
mafic
Jan 12 '17, 16:15
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A lot of them are generally fans of the regime who took advantage of an guaranteed exit to better circumstances (after a fashion, I mean my wife's family got on a plane from Havana to Kiev planning to get off at the refuelling stop, not knowing where that would be, with $50, but knowing that they'd get in, knowing their professions wouldn't transfer, etc.).
A lot of the Cubans that left later largely blame the US for Cuba's circumstances. They see that Castro did a lot of good for the worst-off Cubans very quickly, and then that the US closed the door. They think that without the embargo and the constant drain of wet foot-dry foot that Cuba would be much better off, and more rapidly forced to confront the closed authoritarian aspect they have. As it was (and still is to a point with the embargo), there's this huge overarching thing that the regime can blame for basically all of the problems.
So basically she's glad they left Cuba when they did, but welcomes the warming of the relationship, even if that means other people don't get the same treatment she did.
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