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Ren? Ariza:
It's true, not much is known about it. But what seems to me most significant isn't really what happens, but why it happens. To be different, to be strange, to behave improperly, isn't just forbidden, it's totally repressed. It can land you in jail. It's part of the Cuban character and has been for agen. It's not peculiar to Castro. There are many Castros. We must restrain the Castro that's in all of us. It's an attitude we drag around with us. We've dragged around a whole series of reflexes, of long-standing behavior patterns, and they condition us. It's a vicious circle. We're all trapped in paranoia, and we all feed that paranoia, persecutors and persecuted alike, because at times the persecuted seems to be the persecutors. Everyone suspects everyone else. And this paranoia leads us to... [he doesn't finish his sentence]