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When Cuban president Fidel Castro took power, in 1959, Oswaldo Payá was in primary school - the only kid in the entire school who refused to become a Communist Youth member. In high school, after openly criticizing the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Payá was sent to a Cuban labor camp for three years. Rather than escape to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, he stayed in Cuba to work for democratic reform. More than two decades later, his efforts are suffering a backlash - they moved Castro to launch his harshest crackdown ever. In the past few months...
...continuous stream of oil, as some leftists would like to believe. But it would be extremely difficult to rationalize that it has no effect. There are other dictators around the world who are as callous as Saddam Hussein, and by whose demise an American president would gain more. Fidel Castro, for instance, has one of the most extensive hate clubs of any person in the United States—particularly among the easily swayed voters of South Florida, a crucial state in presidential elections. Steam rolling his regime would be altogether too easy, and under new rulers his country could...
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...