Word: fidels
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Until the rise of Fidel Castro, the longest running dictator in the Caribbean league was Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the undisputed ruler of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Those were the glamour years for tin-pot tyrants, and Trujillo did his best (or worst) to epitomize the pre-Castro stereotype. His uniforms were the spiffiest, his medals the most splendiferous and his enemies the most fearful. He was hailed as God's gift to the nation and was its unchallenged alpha male--the First Phallus of the Republic...
...events of 1959 are a glaring example of the American propensity to limit free travel for political purposes. When Fidel Castro took over Cuba promising social reform, the U.S. denounced him as a Communist (long before Castro declared it himself). After an ugly exchange of words, much resembling the “Yes, you are,” “No, I’m not” format of toddlers bickering over toys, the U.S. promptly banned travel to the island...
...Cubans, like Guantanamera) into a rollicking American-style hip-hop anthem. The song struck a chord; young fans began eagerly trading bootleg tapes of the group and flocking to their concerts. Orishas' fame rose so rapidly that last year the group was invited to the presidential palace to meet Fidel Castro. "So you are the ones who have been making so much noise," said El Presidente admiringly. This from a leader who had once banned American rock music...
...TIME has learned that Cuban officials are weighing whether to send young Elian Gonzalez to next month's United Nations assembly on children in New York. The special session is to be attended by more than 80 heads of state, including President George W. Bush and possibly Cuban President Fidel Castro. But the Cubans are also planning to send a delegation of children, and Cuban officials tell TIME that Elian's name is under consideration by the foreign ministry as a possible participant. It is not clear, at this stage, whether sending Elian has been proposed to his father...
...father in Cuba prompted charges of intolerance within Miami, and did little to endear the exile community to the wider American mainstream. And with pressure mounting in Washington for a reexamination of the four-decade-old embargo against Cuba that has failed to make any discernible dent in Fidel Castro's power, Mas Santos and other younger CANF leaders saw the Grammys as an opportunity to show the exiles on their best behavior - which was why they lobbied hard for the show to be held in their city in the first place...