Word: canosa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lifting the United States' embargo on Cuba would not guarantee an end to Fidel Castro's human rights violations, Jorge L. Mas Canosa, chair of the Cuban-American National Foundation, said in a speech Wednesday night at the Kennedy School of Government...
...address, titled "The Realities of Cuba Today," Mas Canosa condemned the proposed "180 degree change in policy" of the United States, saying that the current embargo is "the only language that Castro understands...
...Canosa, who called Castro the "Napoleon of the Caribbean," told an audience of approximately 150 that Castro "remains unrepentant and offers the Cuban people no hope for the future...
Kovacs is one of the leading men. With his shirt unbuttoned theater most of the performance, he struts his manliness and often gets into a battle of the bulge with Rittenhouse (Hans Canosa). Canosa is also the director of the production, and casting himself in this role is a suspicious move, since Rittenhouse is the loftiest of characters in terms of intellect and smugness. Canosa appears comfortable, almost too comfortable, punctuating sentences with a cigar that is never lit but just licked at the end for effect. His character is enigmatic but haughty and egocentric...
...people to emerge from this with their lives, liberty and their rights. The measures that Clinton is taking serve only to make 11 million Cubans -- everyone except Castro -- suffer." He complains that his organization cannot get Washington's ear because it has less money and political influence than Mas Canosa. "He is promoting the destruction of Cuba," says Menoyo, "so he can go in after Castro, buy everything in sight and declare himself President...