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...past two years, shipwrights at the Mystic Seaport have been busily hammering together a $3.1 million re-creation of the Amistad, an otherwise unremarkable schooner that figured in a remarkable page in American history. In 1839 the ship was making a slave run in Cuban waters when the 53 kidnapped Africans it was carrying rose up in revolt. The mutiny was ultimately put down when the remaining crew secretly steered the boat to Montauk, N.Y., and the Africans were taken into custody. They eventually went free when the U.S. Supreme Court declared their enslavement illegal. More than a century...
...Miami relatives had long resisted the temptation, knowing full well how badly Middle America might judge their forcing a bereaved and confused child to share his pain on TV. But with the legal tide running against them, the boy's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez and his backers in the Cuban exile community may be gambling on more desperate measures to stop the U.S. government from implementing its decision to return the boy to his father. The segment broadcast Monday shows Elian recounting the trauma of his mother's death, but skirts the hot-button issue of where he'd like...
Elian's relatives in the U.S. are not eager to oblige the father's wishes, and on first reading, immigration law seems to support their cause: According to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, any Cuban who touches U.S. soil is entitled to apply for political asylum. There are no overt age restrictions on the law, only a supposition of comprehension. So the crux of the debate is whittled down to one question: Can a six-year-old understand what the word "asylum" truly means...
EXPELLED. JOSE IMPERATORI, 46, Cuban diplomat in Washington; because of alleged ties to an immigration official charged with spying for Havana. Imperatori had threatened a hunger strike to combat the "major slander" and clear his name, but the FBI moved swiftly to deport him on Saturday night...
CHARGED. MARIANO FAGET, 54, Cuban-born U.S. immigration officer; with spying for Havana; in Miami. U.S. officials fed Faget false information about a Cuban's plan to defect to America and arrested him after he passed the "intelligence" to a Cuban-born businessman in New York. Washington later expelled a Cuban diplomat with ties to Faget...