Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels he can correct the perception people have of him." Salinas fled the country last spring after resigning from the presidency amid the collapse of the Mexican economy and his brother's arrest on murder charges. Mexican leaders have demanded Salinas, who is believed to be in Cuba, return to Mexico to answer questions regarding his brother's wealth...
FIDEL CASTRO COULD TAKE MANHATTAN if you let him [CUBA, Nov. 6]. He could persuade the U.S. to lift its trade embargo if he set Cuba free. How nice of him to shed his fatigues and don dapper new clothes. But he is still a devil--even if in a suit. The people he manages to impress never had to live in a communist country, never had to go hungry or be separated from their family. I am sick of people glorifying a man who is a criminal and who violates human rights. He tries to impress businessmen who want...
SOME QUESTIONS COME TO MIND regarding Castro, the darling of New York capitalists and (some) minorities: Would the poor people of Harlem trade their civil liberties and freedom of speech for Cuba's socialized health care? Would the elite of American capitalists find Castro so charming if they had to live in Cuba, where the economy was destroyed by the socialist dictator's micromanagement? Can they imagine living on an island that hasn't experienced free speech since 1959? It's time for Castro's enthusiasts to do some soul searching. MARTIN LOPEZ Miami
...matter how bad Castro's record on human rights and democracy may be, there is momentum in that direction. Clinton has quietly relaxed some travel restrictions. The embargo is cruel, say those who oppose it, and with the end of the cold war, it is a relic. Trade with Cuba, they argue, would open the country up to democratic influences...
...Time & Life Building, he spoke with animation of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, sounding a bit like an aging star reliving his most memorable role. He told TIME's editors two little-known facts about the crisis, one never previously recorded. He said a lone Russian commander in Cuba--not Nikita Khrushchev or anyone in Moscow--held the authority to launch tactical nuclear weapons in case of a U.S. invasion. Castro also claimed that Khrushchev inadvertently read him a letter sent by John F. Kennedy to the Kremlin during the crisis. In the letter Kennedy promised to quietly withdraw...