There's recognition of how totalitarian this society is and who's going to benefit from that. Yes, American people would benefit from contact with Cuban cultural groups, but those cultural groups [are] so much creatures of the state. -Michael Parmly

 

There's recognition of how totalitarian this society is and who's going to benefit from that. Yes, American people would benefit from contact with Cuban cultural groups, but those cultural groups [are] so much creatures of the state.


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But we are going to keep trying to communicate with the Cuban people by any means we can.

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We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset.

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The Cuban regime does not represent the people, nor does it have any interest in bettering their lives. Rather, the regime is obsessed with self-preservation. -Michael Parmly
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Virtually ... 95 to 98 percent of the money that comes into the island is going to end up in the hands of the state. That ... means that money is going to feed a totalitarian state.

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What we are trying to do is communicate with the Cuban people.

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The billboard is an effort to dialogue with the Cuban people. Only in totalitarian societies do governments talk and talk at their people and never listen. -Michael Parmly
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The Cuban regime's hurling of angry and often violent groups against pro-democratic dissidents is particularly disgusting.

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