From this weeks feature article (Paul Ingendaay) about Cuba in the Frankfurter Allgemeine (my translation):

Fidel Castro makes mistakes and doesn't even notice...Even left intellectuals these days turn away dumbfounded from Castro's country, not only Günther Grass but even card carrying marxists like Jose Saramago and Eduardo Galeano. Castro's trick to use the Iraq war as a smokescreen for the most brutal repression since years hasn't deceived anybody. Cuba, that too long pampered utopia whose strongest food was the dumb aggressivity of the American neighbour, reveals oneself as a dictatorship gone senile with a complete lack of societal vision

Wolfgang