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First they lost Elian. Now they've lost Ricky Martin and Christina Aguilera, too. Monday's decision to move the annual Latin music Grammy awards ceremony from Miami to avoid Cuban-American protests deals a blow to efforts by the organized exile community to soften its image following last year's Elian Gonzalez debacle. And the pain will be deepened by the fact that controversy over how to respond to the event had caused the most dramatic split in decades in the preeminent exile group, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF...
...Whereas Mas Santos and many other younger U.S.-born and raised Cuban-American leaders have a keen sense of the importance of tapering their message to the political center, many of the older generation who actually fled Castro's rule are suspicious of anything that smells like compromise. While CANF leaders counseled moderation, a coalition of exile groups vowed to mount a vigorous protest against the presence of the Cuba-based musicians at the event - and despite the efforts by Mas Santos and other younger leaders to broker a compromise, the planned protests ultimately spooked the Grammy organizers into baling...
...conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted the reality of using them during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 - created an overriding incentive to avoid a direct confrontation at all costs, and to manage their own rivalry and the world's regional conflicts in ways that would prevent them spinning out of control. But Moscow is no longer a global power, and Washington is no longer...
...Greatest Hits by the legendary Mississippi blues guitarist. Country guitar god Chet Atkins' new release, A Master and His Music, is on the BMG/RCA label. No postmortem releases by trumpeter and Latin-jazz innovator Chico O'Farrill have been announced, but his greatest stuff is on Cuban Blues: Chico O'Farrill Sessions, a 1996 two-disc release from Universal/Verve...
...local art--which Cubans are allowed to sell and even Americans are allowed to bring home, assuming your visit is licensed by the U.S. Treasury Department--follow Calle Obispo, which begins about a block from the Parque Central. Here you find dozens of "galleries"--usually the front room of a private home--where artists sell often fine work for low prices. Small oil paintings of Santeria saints go for as little as $25, while some serious larger paintings cost $150 to $300. That's cash. No U.S. credit cards or traveler's checks are accepted in Cuba. Private art galleries...