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...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...
Tired of seeing their community portrayed as a martial camp in the Everglades, moderate Cuban Americans in Miami are finally raising their voices above the din of the city's Spanish-language, anticommunist talk radio. Political debates that used to be whispered in Little Havana kitchens are now held in clubs where the rhythms of once forbidden Cuban salsa bands like Los Van Van resound. Members of the new Cuban-American guard despise Castro too--but not so much that they disdain the First Amendment. As a result, they see their ascendancy as more than a chance to democratize Miami...
...latter were born in the U.S. While their parents still dream of Havana, the kids are far more concerned with using their computer and business skills to turn Miami into "Silicon Beach." That indigenous culture has been dubbed Generation n, after a Miami-based magazine run by Cuban-American Bill Teck. Most of the new guard is willing to go along with the American mainstream, which, in recent polls, believes the U.S. should scrap its 39-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. That policy has not only failed to dislodge Castro but also looks archaic alongside Washington's commercial ties...
...guard won't have any of that and isn't about to throw in the towel, despite the many setbacks in the Elian debacle. Jorge Mas Santos, the millionaire chairman of the hard-line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building...
...hasn't been allowed to grieve for his mother. The people in Miami parade him around, and the ones in Cuba have made a symbol out of him. What's going to happen to him in five years?" She's chagrined that a child now symbolizes the division between Cubans and Cuban Americans...