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...younger set in Miami isn't frustrated only by what's been happening over a six-year-old. Prodded by the old-guard Cuban-American leadership, the city of Miami is refusing to let the Latin Grammy Awards be held there because performers from Castro's Cuba may be part of the program. The move will cost the town some $40 million in revenue and considerable pop-culture cachet. And so last week, John de Leon, 38, a Cuban American who is president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local...
...salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami's discussion on how best to democratize Cuba. It's also a bid to reconnect the city--plagued by voter fraud and rampant official corruption--to mainstream U.S. civic values, as well as to its potential as the hemisphere's trade, tourism and cultural nexus...
...That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties to such communist regimes as China and Vietnam...
...line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building democratic and capitalist bridges there in preparation for his demise. Exile leaders like Ramon Saul Sanchez, who once headed a clandestine paramilitary group that trained for a possible invasion of Cuba, say that...
...post-cold war world. Few dispute the genuine grievances of the exiles, especially those who have suffered human-rights abuses under Castro, like imprisonment for "counterrevolutionary activities." But the older hard-liners, despite their protestations of U.S. patriotism, are still steeped in the authoritarian political culture that existed in Cuba long before Castro took power in 1959. Since then, the U.S.'s Cuba policy has indulged the notion that Miami, because of its special anti-Castro mission, sometimes gets a pass on the democratic rules that the rest of the country observes. That was in evidence last month when Miami...