from the guardian............
"The transition to capitalism is already under way," says political scientist Dmitri Prieto Samsonov, 38. "When Fidel dies, if the PCC disappears, the state will stay the same, because we have no civic culture and mindsets are deep-rooted." Clearly the Observatorio is fairly leftwing and Prieto refers to Cuban dissidents as "rightwing", although not all his fellows agree.
The OC brings together organisations spanning much of radical politics. For example, Isbel Díaz Torres, a 35-year-old biologist, launched a green group four years ago. "Environmental organisations are a recent development," he says. "Bodies close to the regime avoid conflict. In Cuba we have no experience of protest; we were brought up to keep quiet."................read more here
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