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...help when, in January, Juan Miguel saw the TV pictures of Elian, dressed in a crisp new school uniform, heading off to a private school run by a Cuban-American political leader. Cuban psychiatrists had advised the father to tell Elian during their regular phone calls that the boy was "on vacation" and that they would be reunited soon. But starting a new school put a lie to that promise, and the family seemed determined to drag the case through the courts. Juan Miguel pleaded with INS officials to speed up the process, and they complied--worried that with each...
...younger set in Miami isn't frustrated only by what's been happening over a six-year-old. Prodded by the old-guard Cuban-American leadership, the city of Miami is refusing to let the Latin Grammy Awards be held there because performers from Castro's Cuba may be part of the program. The move will cost the town some $40 million in revenue and considerable pop-culture cachet. And so last week, John de Leon, 38, a Cuban American who is president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local...
That posture may appeal to hard-line Cuban-American voters, but according to polls, it risks alienating the majority of Americans, who believe the boy should be with his father. And it flies in the face of international laws that protect the more than 1,500 U.S. children kidnapped each year--usually by relatives--and held abroad...
...hard-line Cuban-American leadership also wants to preserve the political clout it enjoyed during the cold war. And it is increasingly isolated, even within Florida. In a poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...
...Gore, the Waters debacle was a reminder of the perils of ethnic politics. The Vice President's decision to align himself with Cuban-American voters may have helped his chances of carrying Florida, but the move has Gore's black allies shaking their heads. "This was purely a political decision catering to the Cuban Americans in Miami," says Congressman Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who represents Harlem...