Word: cuba
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When Madeleine K. Albright, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, passionately decried Cuba's downing of the unarmed Cessna planes, most of the nation probably took her indignation at face value. However, if one considers America's long and bloody history of sponsoring brutal dictatorships and illegal invasions in the Caribbean and Latin America, her outrage seems ridiculous. Of course, two wrongs don't make a right--just because the United States trained, armed and directed death squads in countries such as Guatemala for half a century doesn't mean that it cannot criticize Cuba. But until the United...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a different political climate last fall, a bill pushing for increased sanctions against Cuba was going nowhere in Congress. But after Cuba shot down two planes two weeks ago, the Helms-Burton Bill quickly revived. Passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the bill is breezed through the House late Wednesday. "The Bill would have been modified and defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with...
MIAMI: Reports from Cuba indicate that the Helms-Burton Bill has already, affect investment in Cuba. In an exclusive interview with Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth, Cuban Vice President Carlos Laje says "Even before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire...
...third plane escaped, and the pilot, Brothers cofounder Jose Basulto, claimed the Cubans began harassing the Skymasters as they were flying in international airspace, which begins 12 miles offshore. U.S. search craft spotted oil slicks some 20 miles off Cuba. A grim-faced President Clinton condemned "in the strongest possible terms'' what he described as "the shooting down in broad daylight of two American civilian airplanes by Cuban military aircraft." He directed U.S. Coast Guard units to conduct a continuing search-and-rescue operation and ordered U.S. military forces "to ensure that it is fully protected." Clinton also demanded that...
MIAMI: "The last time Miami exiles attempted to launch a flotilla towards Cuba," says TIME's Tamerlin Drummond, "a Cuban ship rammed the lead boat in the flotilla. Several people were injured." Disregarding past history, Brothers to the Rescue is planning a return to the same spot where two of its planes were gunned down by Cuban fighter jets last Saturday. Brothers founder Jose Basulto, who escaped Cuban jets in last Saturday's attack, says he is eager to go back to the area to say a prayer for his fallen comrades. Despite the volatility of the situation...