FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

Fidel Castro’s death and some cutting comments from some world leaders have shown that the ideological divide remains even after the Cold War had ended, the Soviet Union fallen apart, China turned mercantilist, and Cuba reconciled with the US (and the West) after a rupture of 54 years. The divide seems to come much more alive in our own country as President Rodrigo Duterte’s communist coalition partners try to fast-track a post-Cold War communist regime to supersede our ailing democratic and republican state. Some of them seem to see DU30 as a possible remake of Castro in our part of the world.

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