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...president of the Miami chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit to void the local law that prevents shows by artists from Castro's Cuba. In the past, De Leon might have received instant death threats from militant anti-Castro groups, but they are caught in an Elian quagmire of their own making and are proving to have more bark than bite. "I think the intimidation cycle has been broken in this town," says Elena Freyre, a Cuban exile and Miami director of the moderate Cuban Committee for Democracy. "Elian may mean the defeat of the traditional exile...
...guard won't have any of that and isn't about to throw in the towel, despite the many setbacks in the Elian debacle. Jorge Mas Santos, the millionaire chairman of the hard-line Cuban-American National Foundation, Miami's powerful political machine--and son of the foundation's fiery former leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, who died in 1997--attributes the moderate trend to "Middle-American ignorance about Cuban repression." But De Leon, who has broken with the exile taboo and visits Cuba, insists that the practical way to change the island is to look beyond Castro and start building...
...special anti-Castro mission, sometimes gets a pass on the democratic rules that the rest of the country observes. That was in evidence last month when Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas--widely considered a more progressive exile leader--vowed that his cops wouldn't help federal officials take Elian to his father. However, as University of Miami sociologist George Wilson points out, because Miami's Cubans are perhaps the country's most privileged refugee group, "most Americans refuse to believe that their civil disobedience over Elian is legitimate." Viewed from that perspective, shutting down freeways is no longer protest...
...find a few good discussions, however. When I typed in Elian, I wound up in a CNN chat room in which more than a dozen people were debating his plight. And the teen channels were humming, as kids cut the small talk and went straight to the point with openers like, "Any sexy guys feel like talkin' to a 15-year-old female from Arizona?" and deep questions like, "I don't mean to sound rude, but I was wondering, how much do you weigh...
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