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Bernie's Time Machine: Capitalists Without the Capitalism

Covering the irony of Cuba's communist system.

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Bernard Goldberg
Feb 27, 2025
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“This looks like a country club for the capitalists.”

In 1989, Dan Rather and I were in Cuba covering the Communist Summit. It was a meeting of two communist world leaders: Cuban President Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union.

The event was a big deal, as far as the U.S. media was concerned. All three network anchors were there, …

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