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Posted by Sini

Argentina's Página 12, one of the best newspapers in the world, notes as an aside that Fidel Castro's obsessive institutional homophobia was linked to his displeasure over his brother Raúl's homosexuality. And that the codename for Raúl among gay insiders is "La China."

One of the advances of an opening to Cuba along the lines that Barack Obama (alone among major presidential candidates) has suggested is that it would open the gates for progressive critiques of the Castro regime. Republican Cubans have had a monopoly on legitimate outrage against the regime. That should not be.

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