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...Pico Iyer's Cuba and the Night [BOOKS, May 8] the novel he was writing when he lost all his notes during the California fires? I remember readaing his commentary [July, 1990] and feeling very sorry for him. I hope this is his novel that truly "arose from the ashes...
...including political refugees fleeing for their lives, to the tender mercies of Haiti's military junta. "It is a blow to America's moral authority in defending the rights of refugees around the world." Last week President Clinton announced that he would extend the Bush approach to refugees from Cuba. It was the first time the U.S. has ever endorsed the forcible return of refugees to a communist country...
...deal, worked out in secret talks between senior U.S. and Cuban officials, infuriated anti-Castro activists in Miami and their supporters in Washington, and two veteran U.S. diplomats requested transfers off the Cuba desk. But in another turnaround, the agreement will also permit some 15,000 Cuban rafters now being housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo to come to the mainland, and some Cuba experts are hopeful that if Castro keeps his end of the bargain-mainly by not persecuting any rafters returned by the U.S. Coast Guard in the future-the icy relations between Havana and Washington...
Following secret negotiations with Cuba, the Clinton Administration announced the undoing of three decades of Cuban refugee policy. From now on, Cuban boat people will no longer be given special entry rights to the U.S., but will instead be returned to their homeland, where they will have to apply for admission to the U.S. through normal channels. As a humanitarian gesture, however (and in yet another policy reversal), most of the 21,000 refugees being detained at Guantanamo will be allowed to enter...
Except for a few false notes in the beginning, "The Perez Family" is a superlative work, profoundly funny, erotic and insightful, with a trace of melancholy that wafts through the film like Juan's Proustian memories of a day at the beach in pre-Castro Cuba. I can't remember the last time a movie gave me this much pleasure. "The Perez Family" is a rapturous dream of a film...