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...Americans cheered Fidel Castro for leading a successful revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista. We saw Castro as a Hemingwayesque hero who was going to break the chains that kept most of the Cuban citizenry in poverty, but his true colors came to light very quickly. Until Castro returns Cuba to its people and lets them decide on a form of government, the U.S. cannot consider dropping its long-established trade embargo. It would be a hypocritical travesty for us to ``forgive and forget.'' Let's not crawl into bed with the world's oldest dictator. He is far from harmless...
...never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the other nine months during the farmers' traditional tiempo muerto, or dead time. Her whole family turned out when rebel Camilo Cienfuegos passed through on his way to fight the dictator Fulgencio Batista...
Benitez should have left the book as a jigsaw puzzle of touching, observant portraits of characters with charming names: Candelario Marroquin, the salad-maker who loses his job when he makes a tragic, comically botched Caesar salad, Fulgencio Llanos the photographer, Rafael Beltran the teacher, Cesar Burgos the fisherman. The theme of funny little people with funny little lives and little dreams--Marta Rodriguez, a chambermaid in a hotel, dreams of leaving Mexico for El Paso and working in a house--was strong enough to sustain the story...
...debate over the legislation has reawakened doubts about Mas' own methods and motives. Born in Santiago to a Cuban army veterinarian, he was arrested as a teenager in the 1950s for denouncing dictator Fulgencio Batista on the radio. He fled to Miami in 1960, fearing he would be arrested again, this time for openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit...
...Castro's Revolution shuffles through its 29th year, many Cubans are surprisingly ready to voice, however quietly, their impatience with a system that still seems stranded in its noisy infancy. Almost no one would deny that health and education, both free, have improved considerably since the days of Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Grinding poverty has been erased. Drugs and prostitution, which flourished when the place was a raffish offshore playground for Americans, have now gone underground. But in the face of those advances, the man in the Havana street is still unable to speak or travel as he pleases. Money...