Word: cuba
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...event opened with a teleconference featuring two dissidents opposed to the government of Fidel Castro who are currently living in Cuba: Vladimiro Roca and Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas. Both spoke of the need for Cubans to work with expatriates to plan for the island’s post-Castro future...
Others speakers at the conference encouraged the students to build solidarity with the island nation by visiting Cuba, interacting with Cuban students and bringing their parents to the island, as well...
...used to be that the great majority of Cuban-Americans were adamantly against visiting Cuba, mainly for idelogical reasons, whereas now there are more Cuban-Americans who advocate actively engaging the Cubans on the island on more pragmatic grounds,” he said...
Despite the speakers’ call to visit Cuba, the conference’s delegates did not vote to endorse a resolution calling for the exiled community to return to the island. The majority of delegates felt the conference had convened to bring awareness to the issue and not to take a policy stance...
Helen Jimenez, a second-year law student at American University, said she was pleased with the speakers’ call to return to Cuba...