"A famous comment by a Mexican foreign minister when Kennedy tried to convince him to join in the terrorist war against Cuba and the economic embargo strangulation, in fact on the grounds that Cuba was a threat to the security of the hemisphere ... and the Mexican ambassador said he had to decline, the prime minister had to decline because if he tried to tell people in Mexico that Cuba was a security threat, 40 million Mexicans would die laughing, which is approximately the right answer."
Noam Chomsky, interview with Democracy Now!, on Reagan's legacy.
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