Word: castillos
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...approach is part of a broad strategy of combatting Communist, specifically Cuban, influence in a region where, says the Venezuelan foreign ministry's Leopoldo Castillo, "during most of the 1960s and 1970s virtually all social change was linked to Havana's influence." Venezuela and Cuba have seldom been easy with each other in recent decades; their relationship turned positively chilly last year after Cuban police shot at refugees seeking political asylum inside the Venezuelan embassy in Havana. Caracas withdrew its ambassador in protest...
...never expected to leave one prison to come to another. I was hoping to find a nice place to live and a good job so I could be on my way. " - Alberto Castillo Resell, 23, prisoner at the Atlanta penitentiary...
...Castillo, who was serving a 33-year prison sentence in Cuba for arson, is marking his first anniversary in the U.S. He is one of the 125,000 Cubans who clambered hopefully aboard a ragtag flotilla bound for the U.S. from the harbor of Mariel, 27 miles west of Havana. Most of them were ordinary seekers of liberty. But the Cuban government supplied some of the passengers, including inmates like Castillo, who were taken from prisons and asylums and ordered aboard for the 110-mile trip to Florida. Whatever brought them to the U.S., the Marielitos have one shocking discovery...
...Leonel Castillo, the next talker. This former director of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service saw the American Dream up close: his job was to apportion it. "I'm torn" he says...
...Crimson didn't place first in the hurdles, the high jump or the shorter distance running events, Harvard names do appear in the point-scoring first three places in those events. Names to look for in the future in those events are co-captain Sue Harper, freshman Alida Castillo, freshman Karen Gray and freshman Hannah...