Word: guantanamo
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...followed nearly identical policies toward them. It has enforced tight embargoes against trade and travel and even sent warships to prowl off both coasts. Starting last month, refugees fleeing both islands have been plucked from the waters off Florida and interned in side-by-side tent cities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...
...last week, too, the Clinton Administration's initial response to the renewed flood of refugees that Castro had let loose was heading toward a dead end. The White House had hoped its decision to consign the fugitives indefinitely to the bleak tent cities at Guantanamo would discourage the balseros from pushing off into the Straits of Florida. But a drop-off during the final weekend in August was caused merely by foul weather; clearing skies and lower waves tempted so many rafters into the water last week that U.S. vessels were again picking up more than...
...minute meeting today reportedly contained an undisclosed Cuban response, and the two sides are to resume talks Wednesday morning. In Madrid, Cuba's Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina denied reports that Cuba would only be satisfied with a whopping 100,000 immigration ceiling. Meanwhile, 100 Cuban refugees in the Guantanamo Naval base volunteered to be moved out of the camp and put aboard planes for Panama, which has agreed to accept several thousand Cubans...
Rodriguez grudgingly supports the Clinton Administration policy of detaining Cuban refugees at Guantanamo, on the ground that they should not be granted privileges denied to Haitians. But he fails to see why deserving members of both groups should not be allowed to follow in his own successful wake. "I've driven across the U.S.," he says, "and there's plenty of space...
...surf. Despite cheers from the crowd above, he is finding it impossible to lash his inner tubes to the plywood he hopes will bear him away. The waves are too high; lightning flashes and a pelting rain begins. Does it matter whether he ends up in Miami or only Guantanamo? "Who cares?" he asks. "So long as it's out of here." He has no job, no money, no prospects, he says; he must escape. But not today. He hauls his gear back over the seawall to his building across the street. His aunt, who has been watching the Castro...