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...When Cuban microbiologist Rayner R. Díaz applied for a visa to enter the United States, he thought he would be a shoe...
Finally, on Oct. 19 of this year, the State Department issued Díaz and two other Cuban scholars who had been invited to Harvard—Raúl D. Rodríguez and Jorge L. Maestre Mesa—the three-month visas that they had applied for in April and November...
...October, the State Department issued a blanket denial of visas to 65 Cuban scholars scheduled to attend a Latin American Studies Association (LASA) conference in Las Vegas...
...California’s der gropen fuehrer has turned his considerable charms on sleepy, star-struck Sacramento—that under a canvas tent outside the state capitol, surrounded by sculptures and pictures of himself, the self-described “biggest star in the world” shares Cuban cigars with assemblymen from places like Oxnard and Fullerton. Occasionally, he even offers them rides back to their districts on his Gulfstream jet, and lets them bask in the light of his Hollywood-produced 67 percent approval rating in front of a hometown crowd, and to glowing media reviews...
...returned with the case filled with cash. By now Parmalat's true debts were too big to hide. The beginning of the end came in 1999, when Parmalat executives transferred the activities of the three shell companies to Bonlat, the Cayman Islands firm at the center of the fake Cuban milk scheme. By 2002, Bonlat's fictitious assets had grown so enormous - up to $8 billion - that the company had to invent a Cayman Islands-based investment fund called Epicurum to take over some of its fictitious credits. Epicurum soon attracted the attention of auditors and Italy's stock market...