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"Evolving" Cuban-Americans No Longer Unleash "Anti-Castro Invective"

The Times wonders: Is the more reserved Cuban-American community in Miami no longer angry at "President" Castro?
By
Clay Waters
February 20, 2008 - 2:55pm

Kirk Semple has more about dictator Fidel Castro stepping down from his 48-year rule of the island nation of Cuba in Wednesday's "For [1]Cubans in U.S., Views Have Evolved [1]."


Hopefully the headline writer isn't using the word "evolved" to connote a positive change - implying that softening on Castro is by definition a positive trend in the Cuban-American community.


Semple began:


There was a time when the resignation of Fidel Castro as president of Cuba might have been hailed here by a Cuban-American community speaking in a single full-throated roar of anti-Castro invective.


Castro ruled Cuba as a dictator. Aren't "presidents" elected? And why would criticism of such a man be portrayed in such histrionic terms as "full-throated...invective"?


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[5] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/labelingbias-0
[6] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/cuba
[7] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/communism
[8] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/fidelcastro
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[13] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org