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Today Menoyo is back in the opposition, this time against the leadership of the Cuban-American community that cheered his arrival. In 1993 he formed Cambio Cubano, Cuban Change, a group dedicated to a peaceful transition to postcommunist rule in Cuba. For Menoyo that requires dialogue with Castro-or as exile hard-liners would put it, fraternizing with the enemy...
...meeting with Castro in Havana. It was one small move in the flirtation between Fidel and the U.S., testing the Cuban leader's willingness to make real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members. But the hard line is no longer imposed...
Until last week, placating Miami's rich, powerful and ferociously anti-Castro Cuban-American community was another piece of the Florida strategy, even though it votes overwhelmingly Republican. During his 1992 campaign Clinton backed a law that toughened the U.S. embargo on Castro. Last year he consulted with Cuban Americans closely before shunting the Cuban rafters to Guantanamo. But Clinton knows that Cuban Americans will be a lost cause in 1996. At the same time, recent polls, some commissioned by the White House, promise more Florida votes from being tough on immigrants than on Castro...
...Cuban-American student summed up the feelings of thousands of Cubans in one statement, according to Mas Canosa...
...address was co-sponsored by the Harvard Institute of Politics and the Cuban-American Undergraduate Students Association...