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Bill Clinton got him off the hook this time, but come July George W. Bush is going to face some tough choices on Cuba. The outgoing President on Wednesday issued yet another six-month waiver of a law allowing U.S. citizens whose property was nationalized by Fidel Castro during the 1960s to sue non-U.S. companies doing business with Cuba. The law was passed in 1996, as part of the Helms-Burton package that tightened the embargo against Cuba, and also provided for U.S. sanctions against foreign companies trading with the communist island state. But President Clinton's waiver...
...Bush administration may be tempted to maintain President Clinton's waiver - the widespread, if relatively muted, recognition among the GOP's foreign policy grownups that the longstanding embargo of Cuba may no longer be serving the U.S. national interest, if that interest includes influencing events in a post-Castro scenario. Publicly, of course, they'll all hold the line. Secretary of State-designate Colin Powell on Wednesday dutifully upheld the embargo during his confirmation hearing, even though he'd previously concluded at the end of his own book that it was time to end the Cold War isolation of Cuba...
...Castro, as it turns out, hasn't arrived from Sao Paulo yet (he's producing an album for another artist), so he calls in and another Rock in Rio staffer, a smiling dark-haired woman named Daniela who turns out to be from New York, helps with the translation...
...Castro says his album "Samba Raro" is a tribute to the artists of the past he feels deserve recognition, including Edison Machado, Eumir Deodato, Moacir Santos, Jorge Ben and Baden Powell. Each song focuses on a different act or group of acts; the title track, for example is dedicated to Brazilian acts from the '60s. While he draws from the past, he's also looking to the future and considers the album his "way of baptizing the style" he's developed...
...least this is what I think Max de Castro said. Sometimes he would talk for five minutes and the translator's answer would be "yes" or "no." You know that phrase "something was lost in the translation?" I was living it, baby. Castro, who is 28 and was born in Rio, says he thinks Rock in Rio will have a major impact on Brazilian artists. In past megaconcerts, Brazilian artists have taken a backseat to international ones. "There's a certain segregation when it comes to megashows to give foreign performers more credit," says de Castro. Rock...