Word: boatlift
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...Paya was the only kid in his Havana primary school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was sent to a labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. Now his doggedness has prompted one of Castro's most ironfisted crackdowns: scores of Paya's fellow dissidents have been arrested for treason and given lengthy prison terms. Paya, 51, says he's undeterred. "We're the first nonviolent force...
...school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months, 54 leaders of Payá's dissident groups - the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and the Varela...
...times Castro’s made real concessions on emigration and liberalization in the past 44 years have been when a mixture of domestic economic turmoil and American pressure forced him to. The 1965 arrangement for Cuban Americans to rescue their family members on a designated beach, the Mariel boatlift of 1980, the (admittedly minimal) free-market reforms of the 1990’s—the catalyst for all these actions was the U.S., not the regime in Havana. Historically, America has not gotten concessions from Castro by making concessions itself; it has done so by squeezing the Cuban...
When 16-year-old Rene Hernandez traveled from Cuba to the U.S. in the Mariel boatlift in 1980, his first hope was that he and his family would not drown or be attacked by sharks. Inspired by the plight of his father, a political prisoner, he decided to become a lawyer, although most people told him his English would never be good enough. But a corporate lawyer? That was even more farfetched. "Minority lawyers tend to shy away from the corporate world," Hernandez says. "We don't have the road map or the playbooks. And we feel corporations...
...President Clinton, is it a coincidence that renewals for the immigration accords with Cuba are rapidly approaching? Is it possible that what he really fears is a repeat of the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when approximately 125,000 Cubans fled the island? And is it a coincidence that Gregory Craig, the lawyer who "volunteered" to defend the father, was the former personal attorney for Clinton as well...