Can Cuba survive if the US blockade continues and Soviet trade and aid are totally cut off?
Eva Seone : We know that with any other system, we would not have what we have in Cuba today. The revolution gave us true freedom, independence and sovereignty. So we can cannot make any concessions to the US. They want to destroy our revolution and to apply the same recipe they have used in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to bring back capitalism. We have no option but to try our best to survive in the new situation. Even the children in Cuba are prepared to defend our gains. Broad layers of people support the revolution because the new international situation was not something that came as a surprise in 1991. Fidel predicted years ago that eastern Europe would collapse; the only question he said, was when. But he said that what happened in the Soviet Union was not so clear. We had to have a plan for what to do if capitalism was restored in these countries. We have to resolve the problems we are now facing, and we are fighting hard. We have many possibilities for foreign trade bec
