Word: havana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shopkeeper hangs and ant-government sign in his storefront window without fear of repercussion. Although Cub has not yet reached that stage, it is rapidly approaching it. Indeed, open criticism of Fidel Castro has now spread beyond the radio stations and restaurants of Miami to the crowded streets of Havana...
...arrangement will please Cubans who have close relatives among the exiles in Florida and who are willing to drop by the U.S. Interests Section office in Havana to apply for emigration. The big losers are the 25,000 Cubans who risked their lives at sea only to wind up in tents at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station or in Panama. They cannot apply unless they return to Havana...
Details of this one reached Havana just as a swirling rainstorm sent pedestrians scurrying for shelter in doorways along the seaside Malecon. They thought the 20,000 figure was far too low. "One million, maybe 5 million people want to go to the U.S.," said a young woman, "but they keep changing the rules...
...stop his citizens from fleeing. The U.S. will now accept at least 20,000 yearly, plus about 6,000 more from a backlog of Cubans who are waiting to receive visas that have been approved. To get these visas, everyone must appear at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana...
...reformer, he is almost totally opposed to allowing any political opposition inside Cuba. In the past month, 30 human-rights activists have been imprisoned, according to Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban dissident who heads a coalition of rights groups. Since Aug. 5, when Cubans shouted "Down with Castro!" on the Havana waterfront, Sanchez says, 300 people have been detained and sent to labor camps...