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Bush reiterated his hard stance against lifting the 45-year-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba if the seriously ill Fidel Castro, as expected, is succeeded by his brother Raul, who already runs the government. Predictably, Fidel said Bush's speech reflected the U.S.'s desire to "reconquer" Cuba. And the Castro brothers aren't exactly cowed by these traditional verbal assaults. They have thrived on it in the past: heated U.S. rhetoric usually bolsters their image at home as the island's anti-Yanqui defenders. With plenty of material support from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela (about 90,000 barrels...
...Whether they show him on video, on the radio, on the phone, it's more of the same. He's a political corpse.' NINOSKA PEREZ, a member of the anti-Castro Cuban Liberty Council, on Fidel Castro's first live speech since 2006, called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's TV show...
NINOSKA PEREZ, a member of the anti-Castro Cuban Liberty Council, on Fidel Castro's first live speech since 2006, called in to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's TV show...
...Andy Garcia is very much respected by Cuban-American students for his support for democracy and freedom in Cuba and merging those ideas with the arts,” Counter said. Garcia’s family fled Cuba when he was 5 years old, just two years after Fidel Castro came to power. The actor’s emotional attachment to the island was obvious at the reception following the screening. “I would change everything about who I am to live in a free Cuba,” he told the crowd, holding back tears...
...century. New challenges, new opportunities, new thinking... What's new here is that we are trying to restore the ability of Cuban Americans to be involved with Cuba - who better than they? On the other hand, Castro has defied all expectations before and though there will be a post-Fidel government, its not likely to be a democracy. So we need stuff in our pocket to [bargain] with...