This is the type of journalism that I would live to be doing, except for the fact that I could not make a story on hearing loss come together, the last time I actually had an assignment. I would not even know where to begin to work sources like these, how to find them. But I put up with everything else The Washington Post does for learning from the high octane of such features.
Still, this is a very nuanced look at socialist ideology juxtaposed against the lions of free market economics, and is thus slated towards the juggernaut of American power derived from that free market, which is not always moral, to use Ana's sentiments.
I have always seen the Castro regime as a joke, so it is difficult for me to understand what drove Montes, despite her father. Not that I quibble with the construct Popkin creates, I just cannot see it in terms of a Marxist cause, since Ana herself is certainly intelligent enough to see that authoritarian socialist state models have failed, and Castro has only survived as long as he has due to our military inertia. Killing the squirrel makes us look bad, but I am as zealous as she, on the flip side of the coin. You may wonder how I can feel that way after the life I've led, but it is perhaps due to that life. If I had a way out of this living form of bondage, I'd renounce my citizenship, and leave the country.
Becoming an enemy of state would require too much effort, however. It only has anything to do with Barack Obama to this extent: Excellent movement candidate that he was, I expected to be able to get justice under his presidency. It probably won't happen-- in that context, the freedom to express my dissent doesn't mean all that much.
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