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Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives have - surprise, surprise - chosen the slow road for their appeal to keep the boy in the U.S., and that's just fine with Fidel Castro. Lawyers acting for great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez Wednesday asked the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to review their decision upholding the Immigration and Naturalization Service's ruling that the six-year-old couldn't apply for asylum in the U.S. against the wishes of his father. That request is likely to be a prelude to the eventual Supreme Court appeal that the Miami relatives have long vowed they...
...great-uncle, against the express wishes of his father, and the smart money is against that decision being reversed by either a full panel of the 11th Circuit or by the high court. But while Elian's troubled sojourn in the U.S. grinds through its seventh month, Castro is making the most of the delay. Last week he got hundreds of thousands of Cuban women to march for the boy's return in the biggest demonstration seen in Havana for decades; this week tens of thousands of children got a day off school to file dutifully past the U.S. Interests...
...would be if no higher court extends the injunction that has obliged him to stay. In other words, even though the case has long since been resolved in the court of public opinion, in the legal system it's far from over. And that's good news for Fidel Castro and for his fiercest opponents in Miami, who've both used Elian's fate to rally their supporters behind decades-old banners. The extended Gonzalez family are, in the end, simply the latest victims of the epic mutual hatred with which the Cuban leaderships in Havana and Miami have symbiotically...
...nonsense of Marxism. Well, yes, and no - if you're Trent Lott, that is. According to the Senate Majority Leader and other congressional Republican honchos, an influx of U.S. goods will help force China's communist bureaucracy to democratize, but would only strengthen the hand of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Which is why the GOP leadership is fighting to stop a bill authorizing a partial lifting of trade sanctions against Cuba from reaching the House floor. Embarrassing Lott is the fact that the measure was initiated by Washington Republican representative George Nethercutt; even more embarrassing is that despite the efforts...
...spot by reporters Monday, Senator Lott was at pains to distinguish between trade with China, of which he's an enthusiastic advocate, and trade with Cuba, which he firmly opposes. Cuba "is the only remaining communist country in the world except for North Korea," Lott maintained, and "Castro has shown no repentance; he's running a dictatorship, a repressive dictatorship." There is, of course, no disputing the argument that China's communist leadership has, over two decades of trade with the U.S., enthusiastically embraced economic reform, while Cuba's has for the most part fiercely resisted it even while welcoming...