Word: cuba
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...White House knocked the wind out of any further protests in Miami or on Capitol Hill. And the fact that Congress could relax the embargo the same week that Elian looks set to go home may be a sign that the boy has helped shift U.S. attitudes to Cuba, although hardly in the way intended by his Miami relatives...
...supposed to restore the flagging fortunes of the Cuban-American exile leadership; instead he may have turned into their worst nightmare. The six-year-old flew back to Havana Wednesday afternoon, and not only were the streets of Miami quiet, but the 38-year-old U.S. embargo of Cuba - whose cause the exile leadership hoped to bolster through their Elian campaign - appears to be crumbling too. The Supreme Court Wednesday refused to hear an appeal against the ruling by two lower courts upholding the government decision to recognize his father as his sole legal representative and therefore to send...
...uncles in Miami, that would have been a humiliating propaganda defeat for the Cuban strongman. But failing that, Castro had nothing to lose: With ordinary Cubans incensed by a case whose meaning to them was that the U.S. might question their fitness as parents simply for living in Cuba, Castro would have reaped a political dividend even if the Miami relatives had won the case...
...very emotional. 'It was time,' they said. 'Justice has been done. A child needs to be with his parents, and his grandparents are here. He had no business being in a country without his real family.' Juan Miguel's comments at the airport about his hopes for friendship between Cuba and the U.S. were broadcast here, and they were well-received because that's a common sentiment. People here love Americans. If you go to the 'hot corner' to talk about baseball, they'll talk about the latest plays of American teams. When the World Series is on, there...
...little boy is trapped in the middle of the ocean and watches his mother die, then he's saved by a fisherman and becomes the center of a political conflict between the U.S. and Cuba. It's a terrific story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...