Jon Lee Anderson

It's not a neurologic

It could well be, again, if the cartels decide to use it as a transshipment point, it is the logical one.

And in credit to him, even posthumously, it has to be said that, you know, Fidel Castro kept the cartels out, unlike all the other countries in the region.

For a time.

No, he did.

He did.

But now you feel the kind of ebbing of control.

Even six, seven years ago, Cuba, alongside Canada, jostled for number one and number two as the most secure countries in the entire Western Hemisphere.

You know, Cuba might have people who were on the make, but there wasn't a lot of violent crime and there was not a street drug problem.

Now there is.

There is more need, therefore, like everywhere, there's more violent crime.

It's difficult to know how much there is because of course that isn't reported in the same way it is elsewhere.

But the illusion that Cuba was somehow exceptional, here I am beginning to feel a certain parallelism with the United States.

The idea that Cuba for 60 years in the minds of the believers in the revolution was an exceptional place.

has ebbed almost completely.

And therefore, the end of the Cuban revolutionary dream is colliding against what I see as the end of the American dream.

That's right.

It's equally reported in both places.

I made two trips to Miami in the course of the summer and spent time talking to people there.

including Cubans who are hunting down fellow Cubans who have come into the United States.