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...nickname is El Gordo, the Fat Man, and he is both agent and metaphor. Joe Cubas, 35, a contractor from Miami, has orchestrated five defections from Cuba's national baseball team, most recently on July 9, when ace pitcher Rolando Arrojo slipped into Cubas' car, leaving his team's exhibition tour. That incident, coupled with the defections in late June at the Mexican border of Cuban boxers Joel Casamayor and Ramon Garbey, have led to widespread speculation that the most exciting event at the Atlanta Olympics will be the long jump--from Cuba...
OTTAWA: A dispute between Canada and the U.S. over the Helms-Burton law -- the measure intended to punish foreign firms for doing business with Cuba -- is coming to a head. By late Wednesday, a coalition of 20 church, nonprofit and labor groups had called on Canadians to boycott Florida, a $1.3 billion Canadian tourist destination. Many Canadian companies, which could lose other U.S. revenue if they pressed ahead with Cuban business deals, vow to do so regardless. Although the Toronto government has not endorsed the boycott, it says that it should be taken seriously because it has significant popular support...
...Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed, in the two-story mansion she shares with her manager-husband Emilio on Star Island off the Miami coast, she thinks of Cuba, "mi tierra." She says mournfully: "I can't even see where I was born...
...something had changed. Estefan's music became more reflective. She returned to her roots, singing the Spanish-language songs her grandmother sang to her when she was a child. Her album Mi Tierra (1993) was entirely in Spanish and drew from the traditional music of Cuba; a follow-up, Abriendo Puertas (1995), also in Spanish, incorporated the music of Colombia and Venezuela. Estefan was a crossover star who was able to cross back. "A lot of people told me at the beginning, 'You're too Latin for the Americans, too American for the Latins,'" she says...
Less than a month before competition begins, 1992 high-jump gold medalist Javier Sotomayor of Cuba, the only man to clear 8 ft., has yet to find his form. At a recent meet in Havana, he failed to make 7 ft. 1 in. on his first jump and passed on his next two. The 6-ft. 6-in. Sotomayor has been slow to recover from an inflamed left knee. He predicted that it will take a leap of at least 7 ft. 9 in. to win in Atlanta. "I'm not going for the record," he said. "I only intend...