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Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis by bayesianhorse on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @06:52PM (#9689056)
Cuba is way ahead of North Korea in terms of basic human rights. The Cuban government aren't saints by any means, but to put them on one level with whatever/whoever is ruling North Korea is unfair to them.

In Cuba, the authorities even have trouble locking dissidents up, more often than not. In NK, mass executions and mass imprisonment are the norm, and the differences between prison, labor and army service is at best murky.

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Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis by digi_owl on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:16PM (#9689147)
Never mind that Brazil has had its "fair" share of dictatorships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government

And i really wonder how long the democracy will last if they get too uppity towards US policies...

In the end the Monroe doctrine still seems to be adhered to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

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Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis by bayesianhorse on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:01AM (#9690599)
I think the ability of the US government to influence democracy is largely overestimated. They can't introduce it and they can't exactly stop it, either.
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Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis by digi_owl on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:43PM (#9693965)
They tried their damnedest to stop it in Iran...
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Re:The Cuban Internet Crisis by bayesianhorse on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:17PM (#9694996)
The thing is that there have been US interventions and we tend to assume that it has an effect. But that can't ever be confirmed or ruled out. In Iran's case, who says without US interventions a democracy would have survived the conservative muslim beliefs in the population?
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