Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first involved Freedom House, the New York City-based human-rights organization. In its most recent annual report, issued last month, it listed Cuba as one of the world's worst violators of human rights. That incensed Juan Antonio Fernandez Palacios, second secretary to the Cuban mission and delegate to a special U.N. committee on "nongovernmental organizations" (ngos). Cuba was determined to pay back the assault. When Freedom House applied to the committee for accreditation to take part in discussions at the U.N., Fernandez pounced...
...annual report, Freedom in the World, Freedom House ranks each of the world's nations as "free," "partly free" or "not free." All seven members of the ngo committee that the report listed as "not free" -- Cuba, China, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Sudan, Swaziland and Tunisia -- voted against the organization. Their action highlighted a tendency among a coterie of nations often accused of political abuses, including Cuba, China, Iran and Indonesia, to continually fight U.N. efforts on behalf of human rights...
...Cuba, Vesco was a creature of legendary largesse, and the news of el americano's arrest whipped through the rumor mills. When he settled on the island in 1982, Vesco, who had been known to fire his American employees simply for arriving late for work, was so incensed at the tardiness of the bodyguards assigned to him by the government that he gave all of them Rolexes to keep accurate time. Last week the only security guard at his empty white-washed house at 2114 204th Street, in Havana's elegant Atabey suburb, turned journalists away, saying, "If you want...
Charges against Vesco outside Cuba are myriad if not of mythic proportions. One is the 1989 U.S. indictment of Vesco in absentia for facilitating the narcotics-trafficking activities of Colombian drug kingpin Carlos Lehder-Rivas, who from 1978 to '80 was using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip...
...like some of Warren Eugene's more grandiose plans. Eugene commissioned a team of programmers to design a full-service casino-software package that he wants to license to interested parties. His price: $250,000, plus a 15% cut of the take. He says half a dozen countries, including Cuba and Costa Rica, are interested. The plan is to link the offshore computers together to form a "virtual strip" in cyberspace. Don't like the odds offered in Casino Cuba? Click a button, and you're in virtual St. Martin. Eugene is also mocking up theme-oriented casino worlds, such...