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After sentencing 78 dissidents and independent journalists to as much as 27 years in prison last week, Cuban President Fidel Castro has raised the stakes in his most severe crackdown in decades. Last Friday three men who tried to hijack a ferry to Florida earlier this month were summarily executed--jolting human rights activists already outraged over the imprisonment of the dissidents, accused by Castro of being in the service...
...charismatic leader in the run-up to general elections scheduled for November 2004. meanwhile in the U.S.... A Bit Premature CNN's slogan "Be the first to know" took on new meaning when the network's website accidentally posted mock-up obituaries for luminaries including Pope John Paul II, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela, Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan and Bob Hope - none of whom had actually died. CNN blamed human error, saying the obituaries were intended for internal review...
...world watched Iraqis celebrating their liberation from an especially vicious tyrant last week, another tyrant took the opportunity to culminate a brutal crackdown on dissidents. The recent wave of suppression carried out by Fidel Castro’s regime in Cuba has led to the arrest of some 75 individuals, among them journalists, human rights activists and economists. They have been given, on average, 20-year prison sentences. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it “the most significant act of political repression in decades...
CUBA After sentencing 78 dissidents and independent journalists to terms of up to 27 years in prison, President Fidel Castro raised the stakes in his most severe crackdown in decades. Last week, three unidentified men who tried to hijack a ferry to Florida earlier this month were summarily executed - jolting human rights groups who had just begun to condemn the imprisonment of the dissidents, whom Castro accused of being in the service of the U.S. What's behind the clampdown? Those close to Castro's inner circle say he feels insulted - and unusually nervous. With his economy in endless decline...
Cuban President Fidel Castro normally can't stand being ignored. But he has chosen a moment when the world is looking the other way to carry out a startling roundup of dissidents opposed to his 44-year-long communist rule. Since March 18, the day before war broke out in Iraq, 78 dissidents and independent journalists have been jailed, accused of treason for allegedly being financed by the U.S. The evidence? Some of them recently met with American diplomatic officials who are permitted to work in Havana. But a prominent dissident who has not been arrested is physicist Oswaldo Paya...