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Immigration lawyer Magda Monteil-Davis, who arrived from Cuba in 1961 at the age of eight and lost a race for Congress two years ago, thinks that punishing poor Cubans and those who leave will not bring down Castro. She vents much of her anger at Clinton's crackdown on fellow exiles, who she charges are out of touch with the situation in Cuba. "Most of the Cubans in Miami came out during the 1960s. And the younger ones have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What...
...lives, liberty and their rights. The measures that Clinton is taking serve only to make 11 million Cubans -- everyone except Castro -- suffer." He complains that his organization cannot get Washington's ear because it has less money and political influence than Mas Canosa. "He is promoting the destruction of Cuba," says Menoyo, "so he can go in after Castro, buy everything in sight and declare himself President...
...used to the system taking care of them. Now that it's not, they're so concerned with the lack of food, electricity and gas that they've forgotten about the . greater goal of getting rid of Castro." Albertini wants the U.N. to impose a total blockade on Cuba, even if such a move causes heightened hardship for residents, including his grandmother and aunt. "A blockade would force the people there to realize that the Americans are not going to invade Cuba and solve the problem for them," he says. "The change has to come from within. And if that...
...Inside Cuba: The people explain why some stay and some...
...American citizen, Rodriguez, 23, returned to Cuba for the first time last December. He was shocked by the smallness of the house he thought so large as a child, and by the simplicity of Cuban life, as well as by its tension and poverty. Many of his boyhood friends confided that "as soon as they got the chance they'd be out of there." He believes them: two cousins have arrived in the U.S. by raft in the past five years...