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Since the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Americans have dreamed of dancing on Fidel Castro's grave. They believe in their bones that nothing good will come in Cuba while Castro lives. But all that may soon be history. A week before the Bush-Gorbachev summit, a meeting of far greater significance for Latin America took place in Miami. For the first time in public, Soviet diplomats (including Yuri Pavlov, the Kremlin's leading Latinist) met with Cuban-American leaders. "We are accommodating political reality," says a Soviet official. "Bush will remain hostile toward Castro until the Cuban-American community blesses...
...knows what people like, what makes you tick," says Fidel A. Vargas '90, a PBHA steering committee member for two years and an associate of Romano. "He sort of comes at you from different directions...
Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar, who directs the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, describes Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping as a first-generation revolutionary who, like Cuba's Fidel Castro, will never voluntarily surrender power...
...your assistance sustains their very existence." Moscow's allies understood the Soviet position, Pavlov replied. "We explain the changes in the world every time we meet with the Cubans. But Castro is not someone with whom one uses the word must if one is serious about changing his behavior. Fidel doesn't take orders from anyone." Almost as an aside, Pavlov wondered if it "had ever occurred to the U.S. that some of our friends have no interest in seeing an improvement in Soviet-U.S. relations...
Chanes, 63, and Diaz, 51, were among Fidel Castro's original companeros, but after the Communists took control of Cuba in 1959, the two former guerrillas became disenchanted. Chanes, a security guard who served briefly in the revolutionary government, began to criticize Castro; Diaz, a fisherman and bus driver, joined a paramilitary dissident group in Miami. In 1961 Chanes was arrested for plotting to assassinate Castro, a charge human-rights groups believe was trumped up. Although Chanes' 30-year sentence expires next year, his former prison mates doubt he will be set free. Diaz was seized in 1968, while attempting...