HUFFINGTONPOST: “A Breath of Freedom Suffocated”, por Christopher Sabatini

Picture this: in a brief moment of reform, the veil of isolation is lifted over an autocratic island. Cubans are allowed to travel freely to visit relatives, breaking a half-century of lockdown to get a taste of the world outside. Realizing the risks that this whiff of exchange and travel will mean to their control, though, the leaders clamp down, returning their citizens to comfortable dark isolation.
Is this the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raul, who have governed over the longest-standing dictatorship in the hemisphere? No. In this case, it is Cuban-American Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart.