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...Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties to such communist regimes as China and Vietnam...
...foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that kind of dialoguista thinking "just props up a dictator." Freyre counters that the demagogic...
Miami moderates are fed up with that bellicose symbiosis between Castro and the hard-line exiles--a desperate craving for geopolitical attention in this post-cold war world. Few dispute the genuine grievances of the exiles, especially those who have suffered human-rights abuses under Castro, like imprisonment for "counterrevolutionary activities." But the older hard-liners, despite their protestations of U.S. patriotism, are still steeped in the authoritarian political culture that existed in Cuba long before Castro took power in 1959. Since then, the U.S.'s Cuba policy has indulged the notion that Miami, because of its special anti-Castro...
...liberating Cuba, the hard-liners have, in a perverse way, always been Castro's friends. "The belligerent actions of the hard-line exiles in Miami simply keep giving Castro an excuse to crack down on us," says dissident leader Elizardo Sanchez. Post-Castro Cuba, he insists, will be governed by moderates, not right-wing exiles. The same, perhaps, may someday be said of Miami...
...Fidel Castro has declared that he is worried that the boy may be contaminated by something else: the way he has been paraded about for the press in America. In fact, the international press has chosen to parade around Cardenas as well, sticking mikes and cameras in the face of every possible source and stalking about the small city of 94,000 people. And so, when Elian returns, he will probably be kept in the capital of Havana, together with family, friends and schoolmates, as well as psychiatrists and pediatricians. Alas for Elian and Cardenas, even when he returns...