Jon Lee Anderson
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You have that effort on the one hand, and you also had recent efforts by the US ambassador there who brought in food aid boxes and had it distributed to recent hurricane victims, people who were displaced, through the Catholic Church.
And he did so pointedly through the Catholic Church.
This was apparently in tandem with directives from Rubio.
so that the government would not be involved in the distribution.
The point there was as political as it was anything else.
The point was that we're doing it ourselves, we don't trust the government, and by doing it this way, we're undermining their viability.
Oh, no, that's Fidel's grandson.
It's a good question.
Sandra is...
sort of the uncomfortable grandson.
Look, Fidel Castro and Raul Castro both had, you know, offspring.
Fidel famously was very austere.
He didn't give his kids any breaks, let's put it that way.
If you talk to people who knew them, who went to school with the kids or knew Fidel, they all talk about how Fidel was just not mean, but he insisted that his children...
embody the spirit of the revolution.
You know, he himself was very austere.
His brother Raul was more flexible.
And when he came into office, he made life easier for a lot of Cubans.
You know, he lifted the restriction on the internet.
They could have smartphones.