Cuba: Between the lines · Global Voices
Georgia Popplewell

The Cuban news daily Granma reports that a Syrian ministerial delegation has been received in Cuba by Raul Castro — and Luis M. Garcia (and, presumably, other watchers of the Castro regime) try to figure out what it means: “We are a sad, pathetic bunch, I know … A bit like those old Kremlinologists of the recent past. . . . They would minutely inspect every statement and photograph emanating from the once impenetrable Soviet propaganda machine hunting for clues about what was really going on behind the Kremlin walls. Most were so busy reading between the lines they almost missed the spectacular collapse of the entire edifice.“