Suspended Animation

In two words, Thomas Shannon, the assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere summed up Cuba’s past 48 years when he said in an interview yesterday that Cuba remained in "suspended animation".

As Castro prepares for his upcoming 2008 presidential campaign, the US Government, whose, intelligence chief, John Negroponte, assured us late last year that Castro wasn’t long for this world, is now telling us that he is still the “controlling political presence” in Cuba.

State of suspended animation indeed.

Suspended Human Rights...
Suspended Elections...
Suspended Salaries...
Suspended Food...
Suspended Lives...

BUT NEVER, EVER THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE.