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...four Fanjul brothers, Alfonso ("Alfie"), Jose ("Pepe"), Andres and Alexander. Their family dominated Cuba's sugar industry for decades, and they came to this country with their parents in 1959, after Fidel Castro seized power. The Fanjuls arrived just as a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to control the flow of water in the Florida Everglades made large-scale development possible. The total acreage planted in sugar cane there soared--from 50,000 acres in 1960 to more than 420,000 today...
...stitched his number on their hats, even ex-teammate Jim Leyritz, who played on the opposing Padres. Hernandez pitched his first American season after paddling on a boat to escape from Cuba. His family was permitted to leave Havana for a ticker-tape parade in New York City. Even Fidel Castro is a softy for this team...
CLOSET REPUBLICANS? For its November issue, Travel & Leisure Golf magazine unearthed a never before published photo, taken in 1959, of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara--gulp--playing golf...
Organized roughly chronologically, Cold War ranges over 45 years and all across the globe as it explains and makes vivid this sprawling, complicated conflict. It features interviews with ordinary people as well as leaders like George Bush and Fidel Castro. Equally important, the series lets us hear from the mid-level officials (the commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan, for example) who have the grittiest knowledge of how policy was actually carried out. There is narration, tautly delivered by Kenneth Branagh, but the story is told primarily through film footage of events and the recollections of participants. The filmmakers have...
MIAMI: Nearly a year ago, the Coast Guard pulled over a boat filled with Cuban expatriates headed to Venezuela, where Fidel Castro was soon to visit. Their mission: To assassinate El Jefe, according to law enforcement officials. Thirty years ago, the suspects would probably have been on the CIA's payroll -- or could at least have counted on the U.S. to look the other way. But on Tuesday, the seven men -- including a prominent member of the Cuban American National Foundation, a once-powerful anti-Castro lobby -- were indicted. They face life imprisonment. For Castro's enemies, the times certainly...