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...Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, "opponent'' is something of a career description. As part of Fidel Castro's rebel army in the 1950s, he led 3,000 men against the Batista dictatorship. When the victorious Castro moved politically into the Soviet camp, Menoyo launched a quixotic raid against his former comrades. That landed him in a Cuban jail for 22 years. Released in 1987, he flew to Miami, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of fellow exiles...
Three weeks ago, Menoyo enraged them further by meeting with Castro in Havana. It was one small move in the flirtation between Fidel and the U.S., testing the Cuban leader's willingness to make real changes at home in return for a relaxation of the 33-year-old U.S. trade and travel embargo. Menoyo is convinced that more and more Cuban Americans are accepting, reluctantly, the idea of negotiation with Castro. The largest segment of exile opinion is still represented by Jorge Mas Canosa and his Cuban-American National Foundation, a ferociously anti-Castro organization that claims 200,000 members...
...Babun, 47, is one of those who thought Fidel would be gone by now. Just 13 when he fled Cuba with his family, he now advises American clients like Royal Caribbean Cruises and Baskin-Robbins on ways to prepare themselves for the post-Fidel market. But he formed his company five years ago in hopes of doing joint ventures in Cuba of the kind the embargo still forbids. Today he must study each shift from Havana and Washington for nuances affecting his clients, an obsession he admits is not shared by the younger generation of entrepreneurs. "It's not true...
...Fidel Castro who sundered the marriage of Juan and Carmela Perez (Alfred Molina and Anjelica Huston). It's the political amnesty and boatlift of 1980 that promises to reunite them. It's another Perez, no relation, who gives them a new life utterly unlike the one they yearned for all those years. Her name is Dottie. She is a hooker-turned-sugar-cane-cutter, and Marisa Tomei plays her, most wonderfully, as a force of nature, a small hurricane gusting along on her own headlong agenda, ripping the roofs off everyone's expectations...
...movie begins in 1980, during the so-called Mariel Boatlift, when Fidel Castro emptied his prisons of political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals and other undesirables and allowed them to go to Florida. Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina), a political prisoner, hasn't seen his wife Carmela in 20 years, ever since he sent her and their infant daughter to Miami. Memories of Carmela and his daughter kept him alive during his imprisonment, and he desperately looks forward to the reunion. Dorita Perez (Marisa Tomei), a young sugarcane worker, is obsessed with American popular culture, especially John Wayne and Elvis Presley...