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Cuba and Vietnam: What’s the Difference?

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Persons with no desire for self-control, anxious for the security of lives planned and controlled for them by others, may view with patient resignation the prevailing trend away from freedom in the United States and in most other lands. Things are going their way. But anyone who views with alarm the growing interventionism will want to plan his escape soon. By tomorrow, or next month, or next year, he might have lost the will–and the capacity–to be free. The escape route, the path to freedom, lies in self-help, self-control, self-responsibility, self-reliance, self-improvement. And slow starters are unlikely to make it.
– Donald W. Shorack, The Freeman [June 1965]

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February 17, 2023

Cuba and Vietnam: What’s the Difference?
During a visit to Mexico by Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel, Mexican President Manuel Amador López Obrador (AMLO), announced that he was willing to lead an international effort to pressure the U.S. government into lifting its six-decade-old economic embargo against the Cuban people. AMLO stated, “As a sign of goodwill and that all the countries of the Americas are willing to join forces, I …
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