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Since February 24, when Cuban MIG fighter jets shot down two planes piloted by members of a Cuban-American exile group, the American government and media have treated the relationship between the two countries very seriously. On March 2, the Clinton administration announced that it would tighten sanctions against Castro's regime. The press has focused on the technicalities of territorial airspace and profiled outraged exile leaders. However, the national uproar over this incident has been ideologically and historically circumscribed, leaving most Americans with a lopsided view of Cuban-American relations and American foreign policy...
...countries such as Guatemala for half a century doesn't mean that it cannot criticize Cuba. But until the United States fully acknowledges and apologizes for its international crimes, Albright's outbursts will continue to seem preposterous. Albright appears even more ludicrous if one considers that the U.S. ignores Cuban sovereignty by maintaining its colonial military outpost on Cuban soil--the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base...
...media continue to ignore the violent history of Cuban-American anti-Castro exile groups. The failed Bay of Pigs invasion was their largest operation, but by no means their only attempt to undermine Fidel Castro and his government. With the aid of the CIA, the exiles sabotaged Cuban industry (oil refineries, chemical plants, sugar mills etc.) and attempted to assassinate Castro. These exiles engaged in terrorism within the United States as well. Actions such as bombing the Cuban Mission to the U.N. and attacking Cuban diplomats led the FBI to brand one Cuban exile group "the most dangerous terrorist organization...
...modified and defanged at any other time," reports TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "But it's a political fact of life that this is an election year and Clinton cannot give the Republicans a simple issue they can beat him with. He can't appear to be wimpy after the Cuban MiG's shot down two planes." The most controversial portions of Helms-Burton would bar shareholders, officers and any others connected with a foreign company that makes use of property expropriated by the Cuban government from entering into the U.S. "Under such a provision, the Queen of England, who owns...
...when the U.S. adopted a new policy of turning back Cuban boat people stopped at sea, the Brothers needed a new mission. Over the past several months, its members have dropped supplies to refugees headed for the Bahamas, and searched for the trickle still coming through the Florida Straits. Twice in the past few years they went in over Havana to drop leaflets expressing support for dissidents. Last summer Havana warned that if Brothers violated Cuban airspace or Cuban waters the group would be attacked, and in August the State Department announced that it took the Cubans' warning seriously...