Word: alarcon
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...Cubans at Guantanamo. Riots were possible, he warned, and by his staff's estimate, a permanent refugee camp would cost some $2 billion. Three months later, partly with that figure as ammunition, Administration moderates staged a policy coup. Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff began secretly talking to Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's legislature. The Guantanamo refugees would be sent to Florida. To stanch any new exodus, U.S. Coast Guard boats would intercept future rafters at sea and return them to Cuba on condition that the regime not punish them...
Cuban negotiators began their third round of "migration" talks with U.S. officials in New York today amid worries that Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms' efforts to tighten a U.S. embargo could spark a new boatlift. But lead Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon, at a meeting with TIME editors, flatly denied that Havana had threatened to encourage would-be refugees: "We haven't made the threat, Helms has made the threat." Even so, Alarcon said passage of a pending Helms bill -- a measure to punish foreigners doing business with Cuba -- could unleash "huge waves of rafters." He also attacked...
...general, Cubans now sense that the country has turned a crucial financial corner since the black days of 1993, when the worst effects of the economic collapse were being felt. ``For a while, even among revolutionaries, there was a depressed mood,'' admits National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon. ``Now that's over. People realize there...
...money in Cuba if they will pressure Washington to end the blockade. He has made some modest gestures in recent months to underscore his appetite for American investment: shaking the hand of Vice President Al Gore in Mexico last December, allowing improved phone service to the U.S. Ricardo Alarcon, president of Cuba's National Assembly and a key Castro adviser, wields a small stick: ``If the U.S. does not re-evaluate the embargo, its policy will become less relevant'' as countries like Canada, Mexico and Spain provide the economic links Cuba seeks and reap the profits...
Cuban officials see nothing strange in all this for an army that was harvesting sugar back in the 1970s. "The Cuban army is not a traditional Latin American army that lives in the barracks," says National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon. Adds a Communist Party member: "You won't see a military coup in Cuba, but more generals will be taking off their uniforms to become technocrats...