Ottawa Shouldn’t Be Providing Comfort for Cuban Regime

Ottawa Shouldn’t Be Providing Comfort for Cuban Regime
People take part in a demonstration against the communist regime of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana on July 11, 2021. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images
Fred McMahon
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Long before the current protests in Cuba, the Cuban people’s distaste for their dictatorship showed, as many shifted from the old revolutionary slogan “Hasta la victoria siempre,” meaning “on to victory, always,” to “Hasta cuándo?” meaning “how much longer.”

Fred McMahon
Fred McMahon
Author
Fred McMahon is the Dr. Michael A. Walker Chair of Economic Freedom Research at the Fraser Institute.
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