The US wants regime change in Cuba. But Havana’s European friends have deserted it too | Paul Taylor

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For many Europeans of my generation, Cuba was as much a progressive cause as a country.

In our selectively idealistic student days (mine were in the mid-1970s), it was a plucky little country that had overthrown a corrupt regime in cahoots with the US mafia. In a popular revolution led by the charismatic Fidel Castro and iconic guerrilla leader Che Guevara, it then withstood a crippling US economic embargo to defend its independence. Hasta la victoria siempre! (Ever onwards to victory!)

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre