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...communique from Havana last week sounded downright chummy. "Fidel expressed to Daniel the readiness of Cuba to cooperate with Nicaragua as far as possible to make the policy a success," read the statement. Fidel, of course, was the bearded one. And Daniel was Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. The topic of conversation: a peace plan for Central America that Ortega had signed in Guatemala City the previous week...
...radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking officer to defect from Cuba since Fidel Castro's takeover 28 years...
...Fidel Castro has never been known for his brevity, but the Cuban leader was in full rhetorical flood last week when he gave the editor of the French Communist Party daily L'Humanite a seven-hour interview that did not end until 4:30 a.m. Castro defended his recent closing of free farmers' markets, calling their operators "thieves" who were hurting the business of state-run cooperatives. He ridiculed the welcome given to Cuban dissidents in France and other Western countries by suggesting they were less eager to receive ordinary immigrants. "If the U.S. wants to welcome...
...groups' popularity has resulted in official ambivalence. In mid- March, Aquino announced that all paramilitary groups would henceforth be banned. Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos strongly protested. "If there's any group that should be dissolved, it's the N.P.A.," he said. Aquino backtracked, saying there would be "no immediate dismantling" of the groups...
Even as many other Communist countries are experimenting with economic reforms of one kind or another, Cuba has chosen to move in precisely the opposite direction. Within the past year Fidel Castro has pulled the plug on the country's once-thriving system of free-market farmers' stands and a program that allowed Cubans to build, buy and sell private homes on the open market, two of the touches of capitalism that he has permitted to take root in 28 years of rule. TIME Correspondent Laura Lopez visited Cuba with an American delegation from Indianapolis, host city for this year...