`Democracy in Cuba has a future'
Huber Matos remembers Cuban interim leader Raúl Castro, a
comrade-in-arms during the fight against dictator Fulgencio Batista, as
a vengeful and calculating man who helped put him in jail for 20 years.
Matos also doesn't think much of Castro's ability to rule Cuba in place
of 80-year-old brother Fidel.
''Raúl is not really governing. His older brother continues to
manipulate him at will and rein in his initiatives,'' Matos said.
Matos, 88, came to Miami in 1979 after serving his sentence, imposed
when he tried to resign from the Cuban armed forces with a letter
accusing the elder Castro of leading the country into a communist system.
He now believes that there's a ''command crisis'' in Cuba, pitting
members of the ruling class against each other, and hopes that armed
forces and interior ministry officials will step in to lead the island
toward democracy.
Dissidents ''form the democratic . . . leadership inside Cuba [and] are
called upon to play a future role next to those military people who, in
due course, opt to follow the changeover,'' he added. ``The Castro model
is exhausted and I have faith that democracy in Cuba has a future.''
-- WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA
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