Word: cuba
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...Sophonie?", May 3) does she mean that we should no longer be concerned about the rights of people living under the world's remaining Communist dictatorships? Should the fact that the Soviet Union has vanished like a bad dream free our consciences of the burden of caring that in Cuba, for example, political dissidence is considered a criminal mental illness and children are regarded as property of the state...
...Haiti is deplorable (a situation not helped, incidentally, by the Clinton administration's ill-advised 1994 military intervention on the behalf of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide). I do not believe that it is commensurate with the kind of stifling, Stalinist repression that Fidel Castro continues to wreak upon Cuba. All the same, it seems to me that if Lewis wants to raise awareness of the plight of Haitians, the way to do it is not to deny the plight of Cubans. And I agree that we should treat all refugees equally--all should be allowed to stay...
...young motherless child, Sophonie has drawn no crowds. No marches or national work boycotts are being held in her honor. No one calls her survival a "miracle." The public is largely indifferent to Sophonie's plight because she comes from the island of Haiti rather than the island of Cuba...
...difference between this six-year old-girl from Haiti and her more famous male counterpart from Cuba is that the latter is deemed a political refugee, while the former is merely fleeing economic misery. The gap in treatment between these two children illustrates one of the most ideologically problematic distinctions in U.S. immigration policy. As tensions between Cuba and the U.S. ease and the political climate in Haiti becomes less stable, America should ease its restrictions against Haitian immigrants...
...paper found these events worthy to fill only a two-inch column of text. Even worse, the information was located on page 18 of the newspaper, just to the left of the U.S. temperature map. Eighteen pages earlier, the day's top headline proclaimed "U.S. Will Let Friends From Cuba Visit Elian," which was closely followed by the revelation that Jon Benet Ramsey's parents rejected a lie detector test...