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Once upon a time there were serious proposals to make Cuba a US state, but due to northern fears that it would be yet another slave state, it never happened. Nonetheless when the history of the 20th-21st century American people is written, Cuba will be found to have disproportionate impact. I expect that impact will again make itself felt in 2016.
There has been no greater advocate of liberty, and no better voice for the American Dream than the sons and daughters of Cuba in America. Here is an example--Arturo Sandoval. Cuba Libre.
Great clip. It reminds me of Czech writer Josef Skvorecky's stories of jazz under the Nazis (and later the Communists). For example, he writes at one point how, in occupied Czechoslovakia during the war, the Nazis frowned on jazz, and preferred that dance bands --- avoiding the dreaded syncopated rhythms, naturally --- use the cello instead of the ("Negro") saxophone!
But of course free artistic expression has a long history of being suppressed by the extremists in power on both the right and left. Both have an official narrative which can't stand alternative viewpoints. Individuality makes ideologues uncomfortable.
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