Word: fidel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well then, negotiate some kind of deal with Fidel to replace the U.S. embargo that has been in place for 32 years -- and Clinton has just tightened? Castro coolly declared that he was ready and willing to talk, seizing the high ground in a game he largely controls. His ability to provoke or stop a flow of refugees almost at will gives him a power to bedevil Washington that he is using with relish. This week American and Cuban officials will resume low- level talks, focused strictly on migration, that were suspended last December. But as for wide-ranging negotiations...
...would be unwise to count on such a lucky break. For all his economic bungling, Castro retains strong political control and the loyalty of many Cubans, probably still a majority of them. The new surge of people fleeing is sometimes seen as the beginning of the end for Fidel, but it might equally provide him with a safety valve that drains away the most seriously discontented -- as well as illustrating once again his unrivaled ability to torment American Presidents...
...crisis came in the wake of a melee on Aug. 5, when hundreds of young Cubans, watched by thousands of amazed onlookers, rioted over the suspension of a Havana bay ferry that had been hijacked three times to Florida. As some of the rioters dared to shout, "Down with Fidel!" the demonstration was quickly halted. But the message was not lost on Castro. Unleashing refugees has proved an effective attention getter for him in the past, and he has been disappointed that a Democratic Administration in Washington has not proved more receptive to dealing with him. So Castro...
Even so, Castro seems thoroughly in control. The ability of many Cubans to describe harrowing privation and in almost the same breath profess loyalty to Fidel -- or at worst a kind of numb resignation -- is startling. Raise, 31, an engineer, pauses along the Almendares River in western Havana to watch the return of several rafts that had tried to make it across the Straits of Florida but were forced by bad weather to turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing...
negotiations with Fidel Castro...