Teil 1 eines zweiteiligen Interviews der CNN-Journalistin Christiane Amanpour mit der Präsidententochter Mariela Castro, die zur Zeit die USA besucht, ist inzwischen online anzusehen:

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/05...castro-krugman/ (13 Minuten, englisch)

Einige Nonsens-Höhepunkte:

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She defended her nation as one that allows dissent. "People who dissent don't go to jail," she said. "Everybody in Cuba expresses their view and there's a political participation so that we can express ourselves and question everything." [Das verbietet schon die kubanische Verfassung! Müsste sie eigentlich wissen.]
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She said the island's single-party system would disappear if other nations would stop trying to impose their will on Cuba.

"If Cuba's sovereignty weren't threatened, if the internal affairs of Cuba weren't manipulated in media campaigns, if Cuba weren't the subject of an economic and trade embargo, which has caused so many problems for us, then in Cuba, it wouldn't make sense to have a sole party, just one party," she said. [Dieses Argument kannte ich bisher noch nicht. Ich dachte immer, das Ein-Parteien-System sei eine Konsequenz der souveränen kubanischen Umsetzung der Ideologien Marx', Lenins und Martís, und nicht der politischen Entscheidungen ausländischer Mächte.]
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[Yoani Sánchez] doesn't really fight for authentic rights; she's not committed to the rights movement in Cuba, because she doesn't even participate in any of the debates that are trying to achieve rights." [Von welchen Debatten, die Mariela gelten lässt, wird Yoani denn als Teilnehmerin nicht aktiv ausgeschlossen?]

Castro blamed the trade embargo for the fact that many Cubans are not able to use the Internet. "We pay Internet over satellite, which is very expensive," she said. "We don't have the access to the fiber optic lines that pass by Cuba. We're negotiating with Venezuela to help us so we can maximize access to Internet." [Und wir dachten immer, das Kabel hätte längst in Betrieb genommen werden sollen.]

But she said Cubans still have access to "very big social networks." [Ja, für ein Prozent der Kubaner stimmt das vielleicht sogar.]

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