Word: cubanism
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...Socialism means social justice and equality, but equality of rights, of opportunities, not of income.' RAUL CASTRO, Cuban President, warning citizens to prepare for a reduction in government subsidies...
...Busted Dream Juan Puig embodied the Florida dream, proving that an ordinary guy with moxie could make a fortune and enjoy the high life by selling the dream to others. A Cuban immigrant, he started his career as a janitor and then a baggage handler at the Miami airport, living in a Hialeah apartment without air-conditioning, peddling sunglasses to co-workers on the side. In the 1990s, he discovered real estate, rehabbing and selling a few foreclosed duplexes, then developing town houses and branching into condo conversions as the market went nuts. He soon built a statewide empire with...
...July 2 operation that freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 14 others, some have expressed concern that the high-profile rescue did nothing to aid the nearly 700 others still held by Colombia's FARC rebels; one captive's mother referred to Betancourt as a "trophy hostage." Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, whose revolution inspired the group's creation in the 1960s, called for an unconditional release of all FARC captives, while stopping short of asking the group to surrender. Meanwhile, two rebels detained in the rescue face extradition to the U.S. for their role in the kidnapping...
...future looks cloudy. With a director and star who are both Oscar winners, it was the most eagerly anticipated film in the competition. But as a 4-1/2-hour, two-part recounting of Guevara's rebel campaigns in the Cuban and Bolivian jungles, it was also the most dreaded. Neither prediction was quite accurate. The movie doesn't enthrall, nor does it outrage. It simply disappoints, at great length. Except for one zesty confrontation at the United Nations, the film is doggedly antidramatic. At a reported $60 million budget, Che is too expensive to be relegated to art houses...
...than any army commander. "If they drive us off one mountainside," he once wrote, "we counter immediately at two others." Like Castro, he was said to have escaped death repeatedly, and rarely stayed in one location more than a few days. But although Marulanda was originally inspired by the Cuban Revolution, he was never the committed communist Castro became, a fact that always kept relations between the two surprisingly cool. "Marulanda doesn't read Mao," his biographer, Arturo Alape, told TIME in the 1998. "He reads Colombian military academy textbooks." But in the end, Uribe - whose father was killed...