Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Communism has not taken hold in Cuba, he believes, and when Castro dies the island will move away from its alien ideology. At that moment, Padilla predicts, thousands of exiles will return home and start new businesses with the money they have made in the U.S. But they will not forsake their new home in Florida: they will shuttle between the two countries as easily as if they were going from New York to Washington. Cuba will become half American, and the great irony, Padilla concludes, is that Castro, who tried to expunge the American image from the island, will...
Union City, N.J., is 1,300 miles from Cuba. But refugees from Fidel Castro's island so dominate the community that a service organization posts the days when the "Cuban Lions" meet. A children's shop does a brisk business in mosquiteros, lace mosquito nets for cribs that are a necessity in Cuba but only a nostalgic and expensive decoration in Union City...
When they meet in the U.S., Hispanics feel as much rivalry as camaraderie. Many of the first Cubans who fled from Castro were middle class or even wealthy. Other Hispanics call them "the hads" (los tenia) because so many of their sentences supposedly begin "In Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...
...Miami's Diario Las Americas, founded in 1953, finds its biggest challenger in the Miami Herald, which publishes a daily Spanish-language supplement called El Herald. Begun in 1976, El Herald is inserted into editions delivered to Hispanic neighborhoods. Though Diario (circ. 63,000) is not as rabidly anti- Castro as many of the broadsheets that circulate among Dade County's 666,000 Cuban Americans, the paper is sturdily anti-Communist...
Scion of an aristocratic Cuban family, he studied chemical engineering at Yale and, after returning to his homeland in 1954, took a job with the Coca- Cola Co. Goizueta came to the U.S. permanently in 1961 to escape the Castro regime and counts himself one of the lucky Cuban refugees: "I had an education and a job." He became a citizen in 1969. Named president of Coca- Cola in 1980 and chairman of the board a year later, Goizueta, 53, now runs one of the most multinational of multinational corporations; other top officers are from Argentina, Germany, Italy and Mexico...