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...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...
...Havana on a less-than-decorous note, with Cubans alleging that meddling by Cuban-Americans could start the refugee exodus again. Despite the squabbling today, negotiators -- who apparently had broken off talks -- resumed this evening. TIME correspondent Cathy Booth, in Havana, reports that chief Cuban negotiator Ricardo Alarcon alleged "the Cuban Mafia in Miami" had jeopardized implementation of Havana's immigration pact with the U.S. by filing suit yesterday to block 1,000 Cuban refugees detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay from returning home. What the Cubans omitted: Most refugees who were to be returned to Cuba...
...interview with TIME editors today, the chief Cuban negotiator in Friday's agreement over the refugee crisis, Ricardo Alarcon, said the first U.S.-Cuban accord during Fidel Castro's three decades in power provides a toehold on more extensive relations. He said the next step-- if Cuba lives up to its promise to halt the 3,000-a-day refugee flow in return for 20,000 U.S. visas a year--would be talks on lifting the longtime U.S. embargo. U.S. officials downplay the possibility of lifting the three-decade-old embargo. "There is a paradox," the former Cuban Foreign Minister...