Word: eliane
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This is what the relocation of one little boy can do to a great nation: By Tuesday, Little Havana had padlocked its doors in silent protest at the removal of Elian Gonzalez by federal agents. That night 17 Cuban-American major league baseball players and coaches refused to show up for their games. Next, voters re-registered as Republicans in Union City, N.J., the big Cuban-American enclave in a battleground state. By Friday, Miami's Cuban-American mayor had fired the city manager and provoked the departure of the police chief for their minor roles in support...
This year the macarena's not going to cut it; Al Gore had better work on his salsa moves. With the Cuban-American political leadership already enraged at the administration over the Elian Gonzalez case, Wednesday's raid on protesters at a Navy base in Vieques could certainly dampen Puerto Rican enthusiasm for getting out the Gore vote. U.S. marshals and FBI agents began in the early hours arresting protesters who're trying to stop the U.S. Navy from reopening its bombing range on the island, among them nuns, priests, labor leaders and U.S. congresspeople from Illinois and New York...
...Latino vote, regarding its as a core constituency that can keep the presidency in their hands for some time to come, while Governor Bush's popularity among Texan Latino voters was one of his earliest selling points among GOP leaders. Vieques' coming hard on the heels of Elian may giving the vice president something of a sleepless springtime...
...emotional outcry over Elian, a custody case that has now cost taxpayers over $500,000, is understandable, especially within the Cuban-American community. However, the American public needs to reexamine the values that place the case of a Cuban boy so far above that of a Haitian girl. The war against Communism is ended. Castro no longer represents a dangerous threat to American national security, (if it ever did) and the Cuban Embargo may soon be lifted...
Meanwhile, the people of Haiti face political violence, economic hardship and little foreign aid, (millions of dollars in much-needed relief are currently blocked by legislative impasse). Sophonie Telcy is a refugee who, like Elian, was brought to America in search of a better life. A private bill called "For the Relief of Sophonie Telcy," consciously modeled on a bill written for Elian Gonzales has been sent to Washington. Like most private bills, It has little chance of passing...