Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Daughter expects more repression by 'Mr. Power' Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 15:01:10 EST Message-ID: \SE A;WORLD \HD Daughter expects more repression by 'Mr. Power' \BY Tom Carter \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES \DT HAVANA HAVANA - Alina Revuelta, Fidel Castro's daughter from his beautiful aristocratic mistress in the 1950s, does not like talking to reporters. In the past, she said, they have misquoted her or misrepresented her views and made her look silly. She is openly critical of her father, whom she calls "Mr. Power," and while nothing has happened in the past, she worries about her own and her daughter's safety. "If I could say something that would help the country, I would say it," she said while seated on the veranda of her apartment in Nuevo Vedado. "But nothing I could say will help." Wearing a Super Bowl T-shirt and sweats, she looked downcast. Then she began to speak: "We are having it very hard. It is indescribable. You'd have to live here to see the decay of all sorts; social, economic, moral and political. "Unfortunately nothing I could say will avoid what is coming upon us. I expect the worsening of the situation and repression. "All I want is the world that feels itself democratic to behave in solidarity at a given moment with the Cuban people and Cuban children, who through no fault of their own have had tyranny for 34 years. "You must live here to understand. . . . You have to have a really geniuslike talent to drive 11 million people to misery. "There is no bread, no clothing, no transportation. We can't even go to school because there is no transportation. "What we want to achieve [in the revolution] is equality, and it is undeniable that equality has been achieved in its most drastic." She was asked if she believed the U.S. embargo on Cuba and the Torricelli law would bring down the government, either through a military coup or mass protests. She said no. "Before that happened there would be a great repression," she said. Saying her father could cause her trouble, she then demanded that every word of the interview be read back to her. She also demanded a promise that nothing but what she had said would be published. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM