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...septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned Cooder a $100,000 fine from the U.S. government. "I learned that what Buena Vista means to the people who enforce the [Cuba trade and travel] embargo," says Cooder, "is not very much...
Cooder faces imprisonment by the U.S. government if he returns to Cuba, which means Mambo and the Ferrer album are the end of his Cuban excursions. "It's totally impossible for me to go back until some comprehensive change occurs in the embargo," says Cooder. "The sad thing is, these players are indispensable, and none of them are getting younger...
...These are symptoms of a much deeper ill in society,” he said. “The U.S. government administration right now has a hand in blocking clean water assistance, education assistance to the poorest nations, including Haiti. This embargo is not an act of God, but of mean-spirited policy...
...nuclear non-proliferation treaty in January, insisted that only direct talks with Washington will do - and seemed intent on persuading its people that a U.S. attack was imminent. Air-raid drills are conducted daily, and conditions steadily worsen in the impoverished nation, which is under an oil embargo imposed by the U.S. and its allies. A severe winter hasn't helped. The energy shortage is apparent in classrooms, where students wear coats and gloves; in apartment buildings, where elevators are grounded; and in the dimly lit public buildings. Food rations have been cut as appeals by the U.N. have been...
...giant drill to Iraq in 1999 has left a gaping hole in Germany's efforts to restrict the export of sensitive military-use technology. A Mannheim court last week sentenced Bernd Schompeter, 59, to five years and three months in jail after ruling that he had broken an export embargo with the drill, which can be used to manufacture cannon capable of firing chemical or nuclear weapons. It also handed a suspended sentence to Willi Heinz Ribbeck, 53, a sales manager at the machinery company that made the drill. The convictions embarrass Germany, which has tried to clean...