Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uprisings were sparked by the Administration's announcement that Cuba's Fidel Castro had agreed to take back 2,545 criminals and mental patients who $ had come to the U.S. among the 125,000 Cubans in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Some 7,600 Cubans are being held in 100 locations because they committed crimes or were found ineligible for U.S. residence. Those at Oakdale and Atlanta rioted, torching buildings and seizing hostages to show that they would rather stay in jail than go back to Cuba...
...main point the Cubans won was a pledge that they will not be returned to Cuba before their cases are speedily and fairly reviewed, but there was no guarantee that many will not be deported after that. Any detainee may apply for a visa to a country other than Cuba or the U.S. All were granted amnesty for damaging property during the rioting, which virtually gutted both institutions. Those detainees who had finished sentences for various offenses, some as minor as possessing marijuana, were promised their release by next June 30 at the latest. Any such deadline was a vast...
Although the leaders were short on specifics, one goal clearly was to diminish the influence of a key OAS member that was not invited to the parley: the U.S. Among other things, the so-called Group of Eight appeared to challenge Washington directly by suggesting that Cuba, which has been excluded for the past 25 years, should now be permitted to participate...
Until the Soviet Union pulls out of Afghanistan, stops supplying arms to Cuba and allows for greater freedom at home, the United States should hold back from signing any accords, he said...
...They're still asking the same thing. They don't want to go back to Cuba and they'd like not to be prosecuted for what they're doing," said Luenette Johnson, a spokeswoman for the center, which is run by the Bureau of Prisons and the Immigration and Naturalization Service...