Word: fidelity
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DEFECTED. CARLOS MANUEL, 30, Cuban pop star; in Brownsville, Texas. The singer, who had been performing with his band in Mexico City, made his way to Matamoros and walked across a bridge into Brownsville with several family members. After saying his decision to leave Cuba was prompted by Fidel Castro's crackdown on dissidents, he was granted asylum...
...waiting to see what TIME would say about Fidel Castro's crackdown on Cuban dissidents [WORLD, May 19]. Tim Padgett's thoughtful and balanced appraisal of Oswaldo Paya, the Cuban dissident who stayed in the country to work for democratic reform, was worth the wait. Paya's drive calling for a plebiscite on free speech and multiparty elections has placed the emphasis on a hopeful future. Castro has run Cuba as his feudal estate for 44 years, but his naive supporters are finally seeing him for the tyrant he is. As Padgett wrote, Paya has succeeded in "wresting the Cuba...
Oswaldo Paya is something Cuban President Fidel Castro has rarely, if ever, faced: a dissident as hardheaded as he is. When Castro took power in 1959, Paya was the only kid in his Havana primary school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, he was sent to a labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. Now his doggedness has prompted one of Castro's most ironfisted crackdowns: scores of Paya...
When Cuban president Fidel Castro took power, in 1959, Oswaldo Payá was in primary school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months...
...continuous stream of oil, as some leftists would like to believe. But it would be extremely difficult to rationalize that it has no effect. There are other dictators around the world who are as callous as Saddam Hussein, and by whose demise an American president would gain more. Fidel Castro, for instance, has one of the most extensive hate clubs of any person in the United States—particularly among the easily swayed voters of South Florida, a crucial state in presidential elections. Steam rolling his regime would be altogether too easy, and under new rulers his country could...