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DIED. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA, 67, director; of cancer; in Mexico City. In Castro's Cuba he created daring films such as Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), a portrait of a gay Cuban, and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), an ironic view of the revolution...
...with some old-fashioned red scare tactics. Declaring that an end to supports would open the door to Cuban sugar, the North Carolina Democrat demanded to know, "How dare this House bring pleasure to Fidel Castro?" The Congressman will be happy to discover that the existing trade embargo against Cuba will deny any such solace...
...HELMS-BURTON ACT, IMPOSING EVEN harsher trade sanctions on Cuba, is draconian legislation. In proposing it, Senator Jesse Helms self-righteously stated that Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for cooperating with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World Wars I and II long before the U.S. did. As for aiding and abetting tyranny, the U.S.--not Canada--has supported such despots as Batista in Cuba, Papa Doc in Haiti, Somoza in Nicaragua and Pinochet in Chile, plus others elsewhere around the globe. The list goes on and on. Enough...
...SPENT ALMOST 50 YEARS IN CUBA AND have often returned there on family business. I can say that the economic depression there has much less to do with the U.S. embargo than with Castro's lining his pockets. He has not, however, been able to destroy the spirit of the Cuban people or stop efforts from abroad to attain freedom for them. I hope to see the end of Castro's regime. I will not predict the result; history will speak for itself. Unfortunately, too many lives have already paid the price for Castro's rule. ASTERIA PENA Coconut Creek...
HELMS-BURTON IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO deflect the attention of the public away from the inadequacies of U.S. foreign policy regarding Cuba. Is the American government really so concerned about the morality of doing business with what it calls an oppressive dictatorship? The issue here is not morality. It is that the American government, through four decades of unsuccessful economic sabotage geared toward bringing down a system of government it deems inappropriate, has succeeded only in alienating itself from the trade equation. PETER DOZZI Sudbury, Ontario...