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...December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana, had a screening of it and smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, and according to one eyewitness, is “touring Havana incognito. Many people say he is going round Havana undercover, and is interested in seeing a game of baseball or, maybe like Hemingway, going fishing.” Only one problem—the Cubans don?...
...Fidel Castro once sought to challenge international capitalism by distributing weapons in the Third World; now he hopes to do the same with AIDS drugs. The Cuban leader on Tuesday signed an agreement with South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to promote the development and distribution of cheap alternatives to the AIDS drugs marketed by Western pharmaceutical corporations, which are often priced beyond the reach of most HIV patients in the developing world. Castro also vowed to put Cuba's pharmaceutical industry to work on helping countries such as South Africa and Brazil manufacture generic versions of the drug treatments...
...will happen, he will pass. He is an anachronism in the 21st century." COLIN POWELL, U.S. Secretary of State, saying sanctions against Cuba would be lifted, but not while President Fidel Castro is in power...
...respond to any of the financial crises that are bubbling just below the surface of those regions. Moises Naim, editor of the monthly Foreign Policy and a former Venezuelan Trade and Industry Minister, joked that the attitude in Davos was best summed up by someone who didn't come. "Fidel Castro said he just hoped Bush would not turn out to be as stupid as he seems," said Naim. In addition to Bush's mandate problems, a sharply divided U.S. Congress could make it difficult for Washington to intervene quickly if, say, Argentina's economy crumpled again. "The fear...
...Arroyo realizes she has to accommodate her most influential People Power partners?not the eponymous people, but the cabal of generals who hoisted her to power. She moved swiftly to cement their support, shrewdly naming former President Fidel V. Ramos Special Ambassador of Goodwill, an anemic-sounding title for what could be a very powerful role. (Ramos is a former armed forces chief of staff, and during his six-year term as president there were no coup attempts.) Then, on her first day in office, Arroyo gave some of the juiciest government jobs to military...