Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite "hostile statements" from the Reagan Administration on Cuban involvement in Central America, the Castro government is still waiting for the release of an official U.S. policy towards Cuba, a high-ranking Cuban diplomat said earlier this week...
Hope Somoza, the widow of the Nicaraguan President, lives in Key Biscayne. Nicole Duvalier, who opposes her brother Baby Doc, owns a sumptuous home in southwest Miami. The son of the late Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, works as a model in Fort Lauderdale. A retired leader of the Tonton Macoute, the Haitian secret police, lives in Miami. Says one leading political exile, alive...
...Havana, the epicenter of the Cuban community that stretches along Eighth Street (or Calle Ocho,) is a foreign land. In Antonio Maceo Park (named for a black Cuban patriot), old Cubans pass the time playing dominoes or reading Spanish-language newspapers that carry headlines like THE PLAN TO INVADE CUBA IS READY. The Miami Herald, the city's largest newspaper, is printed daily in Spanish as El Herald. Its circulation: 421,236 in English; 60,000 in Spanish. Three television stations and seven radio stations in South Florida broadcast Spanish programs. There are six Spanish legitimate theaters, two ballet troupes...
...Carlos, the patriarch of the family, grew up in Cuba and, as a professor of history at the University of Havana, helped write his country's 1940 constitution. Nearly two decades later he found himself opposing both the corrupt regime of President Fulgencio Batista and the revolution headed by a former student of his named Fidel Castro. After Castro gained power on New Year's Day 1959, Don Carlos, his wife and stepdaughter fled the country and settled in Washington. Uva's boyfriend Jorge left Cuba to join Uva in 1961. That same year, the family moved...
...what is evidently a coordinated effort to court the Islamic leadership, Cuba has dispatched Foreign Minister Isidore Malmierca Peoli to Iran eight times since the fall of the ' Shah. In addition, more than two dozen visits have been exchanged between Khomeini aides and high-level Cuban officials. An Iranian parliamentary delegation attended a large meeting in Havana in September with top Cuban leaders, including Fidel Castro. One delegate later told the Iranian parliament how Castro had praised Khomeini and his "anti-imperialist struggle." The Cubans reportedly urged Iran to open an embassy in Havana...