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The celebrated lament of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz (1830–1915), ‘Poor Mexico, so far from God and so near to the United States!’, may as well have been coined by a Cuban leader. It is a sentiment with which generations of Cubans could have identified wholeheartedly. They have made a habit of blaming their small country’s woes on the colossus to the north. So too today, with a great many Cubans – and certainly the Castro government – still regarding the US as a singularly bad neighbour bent on subjugating the island to its will through the use of sanctions and subversion.
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Geldenhuys, D. (2004). Cuba. In: Deviant Conduct in World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000711_9
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