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...pressures on Castro at home have forced the Cuban leader to play a risky game. Castro's goal, argues a State Department official, "is to force us to negotiate the embargo." By threatening to swamp South Florida with another wave of refugees, Castro was gambling he could wring concessions out of the U.S. without destroying his own regime in the process. "What he's always good at is flipping things so his problem becomes someone else's," says the official. "This is his last card. He knows this is the one thing he can do to get our attention...
Clinton enjoyed a certain amount of maneuvering room: there is no significant sentiment in Congress to open up immigration or lift the trade embargo on Cuba. "The solution is not for 100,000 Cubans to come to the U.S.," says New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez, "but for one man to leave Cuba, and that is Fidel Castro." While some angry Cuban Americans took to the streets of Miami shouting, "Down with Clinton!" exile leaders like Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, lobbied the White House to keep up the pressure. The truth is that even...
...hated Fidel Castro so much that the CIA fabricated seashells to explode when he was scuba-diving and a powder that would make his beard fall out. He and his beard survived all those barbs. Today the loathing has softened, but its spirit still animates America's punishing economic embargo against Cuba, now 32 years old. Virtually all commerce with the island is banned. Ships that trade with Cuba cannot visit American ports for six months. Most Americans are at least technically subject to prosecution for visiting there. Even the U.N. sanctions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq permit...
...categorically rejected Fidel Castro's televised appeal for talks to lift the 32-year-old embargo on the communist island, even as Castro flung open the gates for Cubans who set sail in droves for U.S. shores. "Our position is that we are not going to enter a dialogue with Castro over the pace and nature of change in Cuba," Under Secretary of State Peter Tarnoff said. "This is not a situation that has been brought on by American actions." With the rate of intercepted refugees at 3,200 a day, Department of Defense officials decided to send as many...
Cuba's U.N. ambassador said Havana and Washington should hold direct talks on lifting the 32-year-old economic embargo against Cuba if the U.S. really wants to stem the mounting refugee flow. If not, he said, President Clinton's beefed-up sanctions would lead to civil war on the island and send "millions of illegal immigrants" toward U.S. shores. The White House rebuffed the advice. Meanwhile, the U.S. military prepared to move 5,000 American personnel out of the Guantanamo Bay Navy base so they could move thousands of Cubans in for indefinite detention. Defense Secretary William Perry said...