Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Castro: All these attacks against Cuba are done with civilian planes. To tell the truth, these attacks have happened repeatedly over the years, and it has created a condition of distrust...
Castro: We realized the incident would be exploited as an issue between Cuba and the U.S. and would become an issue in the American presidential election. But, in addition to these flights, there was also interference by the U.S. Interests Section in our internal affairs. What these people were doing was intolerable. They were giving money and paying the bills of dissidents. They were visiting the provinces and promoting opposition to the government under the pretext of checking on rafters returned from the U.S. And all the time we were just watching. It was intolerable. And then there were flights...
Castro: There's no doubt about the will, but there is some question whether the U.S. government attached importance to our warnings. They may have believed it was not so important. These plans were conceived not only against Cuba but also by those plotting against Clinton in this election year. They want to create problems for Clinton. They want to drive him into...
...OSVALDO FERNANDEZ AND LIVAN Hernandez, the distance between Cuba and the U.S. is not the 75 miles of the Caribbean, and not the almost 40 years of bitter and sometimes deadly conflict. It is the 60 ft. 6 in. between the rubber and the plate...
Fernandez and Hernandez are pitchers, far better pitchers than Fidel Castro ever was, so good that they were national heroes in Cuba. As such, they were given certain entitlements. In the case of Fernandez, the best pitcher for Cuba during the past Olympics, the privileged life included a Moskvich car, immunity from food shortages, $5 a month in wages and closely guarded travel with the national team. Nobody was watching, though, when he slipped out of his motel in Millington, Tennessee, at 7 a.m. last July and got into a van that drove him to Miami...