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...hottest video in Havana these days is seven hours long and boasts no Hollywood talent. But it has Communist Party faithful flocking into theaters to watch the star of the show savagely criticize Cuba's food shortages and bungling bureaucrats. The headliner is none other than Fidel Castro's younger brother Raul. For the party's 500,000 card-carrying members, the uncut footage of Raul traversing Cuba from Santiago de Cuba to Pinar del Rio, chronicling political and economic woes, is a must see. And despite the occasional urge to nap, viewers exit stunned and uncertain what it portends...
Youth Ambassadors baseball team's trip to Cuba...
...Cuban Mafia in Miami" had jeopardized implementation of Havana's immigration pact with the U.S. by filing suit yesterday to block 1,000 Cuban refugees detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay from returning home. What the Cubans omitted: Most refugees who were to be returned to Cuba -- as Havana wanted -- really want to come to the U.S. Today, U.S. officials reversed themselves, vowing to send no one home without permission...
Swept away as we are by recent events in Haiti and Cuba, we risk forgetting that American foreign policy is daily being put to test around the world. Algeria leaps to mind as an example of a less favored foreign policy desideratum whose reverberations will nonetheless be heard throughout the Middle East and beyond for many years to come...
...people of Cuba, who fight every day simply to survive and find food not because of an American embargo but because of the selfish policies of a megalomaniac, deserve no less...