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...Fidel Castro is not a threat to the interests of the United States. So what? His record on human rights is nothing short of abominable, as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights recently reaffirmed, and this is something that should concern us all. As should analogous abuses in China, Myanmar, Afghanistan and other countries...
...economic and political situation in Haiti is deplorable (a situation not helped, incidentally, by the Clinton administration's ill-advised 1994 military intervention on the behalf of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide). I do not believe that it is commensurate with the kind of stifling, Stalinist repression that Fidel Castro continues to wreak upon Cuba. All the same, it seems to me that if Lewis wants to raise awareness of the plight of Haitians, the way to do it is not to deny the plight of Cubans. And I agree that we should treat all refugees equally--all should...
...week planning the raid, had observed from 10 to 30 self-appointed bodyguards who mixed with the crowd outside at any given time. Several were camped out in a tent in the backyard of the house behind the Gonzalez home; four others, members of Alpha 66, a radical anti-Castro group, often patrolled the crowd conducting surveillance, the INS said. Record checks showed that three of the four participated in a 1995 incident in which a band of Alpha 66 members took a boat to Cuba and fired shots at a beachfront hotel. Posing as tourists, INS agents tested...
...Friday, when chairman Hatch realized that Republicans could inadvertently be creating a new voting bloc--anti-anti-Castro Cuban Americans--he postponed the hearings (forever, perhaps?) and rethought the possible witnesses. But Democrats will surely insist on calling "the Fisherman"--a cross between Kato Kaelin and William Ginsburg. It will be a priceless television moment when Dalrymple tells how he and Marisleysis let Elian lick his face. The Democrats will also relish hearing from the paramilitary group, Alpha 66, and the four guards with concealed-weapons permits who patrolled the encampment...
...based private-equity firm CVC/Opportunity Equity Partners, because "the working poor consume." Many entrepreneurs and analysts point to the example of television in Brazil, where, despite extreme poverty, more than 80% of households own a set. "This is not a rich country, but things really penetrate," says Alvaro de Castro, director of business development at Web incubator Visualcom and author of two books on e-commerce in Brazil. "In every favela there are satellite dishes. It will be the same thing with the Internet...