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Viewing cable 08SAOPAULO80, MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08SAOPAULO80 2008-02-21 12:05 2011-07-11 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Sao Paulo 
VZCZCXYZ0004
OO RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSO #0080 0521205
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O 211205Z FEB 08
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 7923
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 9073
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 8592
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 3031
 
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000080 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD 
 
DEPT PASS USTR 
 
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: CUBA; SAO PAULO 
 
 
"Without Fidel, Tensions Will Worsen In Cuba" 
 
Business-oriented Valor Economico (2/21) editorialized: "Cuba will 
not be the same after Fidel Castro's resignation.  The Cuban 
Stalinist regime, which was isolated by the will of its enemies, 
especially the US, and by its leaders' ideology, has remote chances 
of survival.... Without Fidel, the already existing intolerable 
tensions will worsen.  The socialist experience became a 
dictatorship of State and failed.  The only way out is an opening to 
be conducted by a group of bureaucrats who do not have the 
dictator's charisma or popularity.... The US economic embargo is 
mortal for Cuba's economy.... Equality in poverty is an efficient 
but not eternal antidote to a situation that, looking to the future, 
is desperate." 
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