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MIAMI: Fidel Castro will sleep just a little bit easier tonight as Miami?s Cuban exile community mourns the death of his would-be nemesis, Jorge Mas Canosa. Indeed, says TIME correspondent and former Havana bureau chief Cathy Booth, ?Castro is probably dancing all over Havana. He?s outlasted umpteen U.S. presidents, and now he?s outlasted the leader of his opposition in Miami...
...Canosa, 58, a telecommunications tycoon, was the founding president of the Cuban American National Foundation, which transformed Cuban exile politics into a powerful mainstream lobby with sway over the White House. Mas Canosa died of lung cancer...
...real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard line is no longer imposed as it was in the 1980s, when more than a dozen terrorist bombs were aimed at exiles who dissented from its position. Lately other dialogistas have...
...Canosa ended his speech with a call for the realization of a new Cuban republic founded on a "reverence for the freedom of our homeland and the freedom...
Since the violence of the Cuban regime is so evident, the speaker said the U.S. government should be willing to discuss only the terms of Castor's departure: "When, how, and where," Mas Canosa said...