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Meetings in Madrid last night and this morning between Cuba's foreign minister and leaders of the Cuban exile community in the U.S. could lead to "concrete political changes," the exiles said. The talks between Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina and the leaders, first reported by TIME Daily yesterday, marked Fidel Castro's first recognition of his opposition during three decades in power. Robaina met with Ramon Cernuda of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and Reconciliation, Alfredo Duran, a Cuban-born former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party and longtime Miami-area political activist, and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo...
...closed-door talks between U.S. and Cuban negotiators ended today, amid indications that a sliver of middle ground on the refugee crisis could emerge by week's end. Chief Cuban delegate Ricardo Alarcon left New York for Havana after an hourlong mini-summit this morning with Michael Skol, the U.S. representative. Alarcon, who plans to consult with higher-ups at home, said he would return "in a few days." U.S. officials, who have offered to accept 20,000 Cubans in return for a halt to the boatlift, suggested they were disappointed with a new Cuban counterproposal. TIME State Department correspondent...
...Cuba talks, held since Friday, seemed no closer to solving the refugee crisis despite a U.S. offer to admit more than 20,000 Cubans a year. A 45-minute meeting today reportedly contained an undisclosed Cuban response, and the two sides are to resume talks Wednesday morning. In Madrid, Cuba's Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina denied reports that Cuba would only be satisfied with a whopping 100,000 immigration ceiling. Meanwhile, 100 Cuban refugees in the Guantanamo Naval base volunteered to be moved out of the camp and put aboard planes for Panama, which has agreed to accept several thousand...
People stay because many Cubans are still loyal to the revolution -- if not the man -- that they believe gave them 30 good years. According to people on the street and in their homes in Havana and its environs, it is mainly the economic deprivations of the past four that have shaken their faith and their pride. Every Cuban must work out his own calculation for the moment when devotion turns to desperation, when the hardships become too much to bear, when the natural desire to stay is overpowered by the need to go. This summer that moment came for thousands...
...coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette factory and brings home unofficial samples. With the purloined packs, Eugenio heads for the local government bodega to find the old man who sits on the sidewalk outside to trade illegally in yuca. He sells his yuca...