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...garde work. For the La Jolla Playhouse's stunning production of Odon von Horvath's Figaro Gets a Divorce, a satire of dictatorship written at the height of the Nazi era, the action was shifted to a mythical region populated by figures reminiscent of Imelda Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Fidel Castro. Harvard's American Repertory Theater relocated Jean Genet's The Balcony, a transvestite dream of sexual corruption in high places, to an unspecified Latin city gripped by revolution. Says JoAnne Akalaitis, who staged The Balcony: the Latin flavor imports "a much more visceral energy" and leads...
Since then, the Christian Democrats have splintered over who should inherit the leadership. Duarte tried to unite the party behind a trusted adviser, Abraham Rodriguez, but found no echo; instead a divided rank and file lined up behind two former Cabinet ministers, Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes and Fidel Chavez Mena. Rey Prendes is favored to receive the presidential nomination, but his candidacy will be tarnished by corruption charges that have dogged the Duarte administration...
...Reagan Administration has long been trying to brand Fidel Castro a violator of human rights. But Cuba denies U.S. charges that it holds several thousand political prisoners and that some are being kept in dungeon-like jails and have been tortured. Last week a five-member panel from the International Committee of the Red Cross began a month-long inspection tour of 15 prisons, the first time the organization has been given permission to make such an investigation. The group's first stop was the Boniato jail, where the investigators reportedly found no plantados, the counterrevolutionaries who allegedly have come...
...argues that in the first two years of his administration, Kennedy roused the ire of the Mob for authorizing his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, to crack down harshly on organized crime. In addition, the Mafia was enraged at the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, which left Fidel Castro free to shut down Mob-run businesses in Cuba. Ordinarily, Scheim writes, the Mafia would not dare put out a contract on a president, but Kennedy had "slept with" the Mob, using his Mafia connections to meet Judith Campbell, who engaged in affairs simultaneously with the president...
...perestroika at home, it is not going to throw good money after bad abroad. Pro-Soviet regimes will thus be forced to do some restructuring of their own. To some extent that means demilitarizing their economies and therefore their foreign policies. This has already caused strains with Cuban Leader Fidel Castro, who managed to miss two of Gorbachev's speeches during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet Union in Moscow last November...