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Lifting the United States' embargo on Cuba would not guarantee an end to Fidel Castro's human rights violations, Jorge L. Mas Canosa, chair of the Cuban-American National Foundation, said in a speech Wednesday night at the Kennedy School of Government...
Recipient Cesar R. Conde '95, founder of the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA), said he created the group in 1993 to raise awareness of Cuban culture...
...summer months. (The Administration said it was increasingly concerned about the safety of some 6,000 American troops now stationed at Guantanamo.) That's not the only reason, McAllister adds: Clinton, ever mindful of Florida's 25 electoral votes, has been working both to appease the Cuban-American lobby and to solve the refugee problem without giving too much of a boost toCuban President Fidel Castro. Today's solution "should be seen as part of Clinton's campaign to contain andplease the Cuban Americans," McAllister says...
...children's next meal be expected to demonstrate on the streets? The history of revolutions (from the French to the Iranian) give strong support to the argument that political activism often follows a rise in income. And political activism--in the form of opposition to Castro--is what the Cuban-American community wants...
Nevertheless, the strong political pull of the Cuban-American community has kept the antiquated embargo as American policy. No administration has yet had the courage to say enough is enough. President Clinton, who needs every last vote, seems to have neither the leverage nor the inclination to challenge the policy...