Word: havana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have never even been there. They sit here with their stomachs full, talking to each other on their portable phones. What's that have to do with Cuban reality?" But Davis lost credibility in her efforts to sway policy toward Cuba after she kissed Castro during a vilit to Havana last April. The gesture, which she dismisses as a spontaneous social courtesy, still haunts her. Last week, when she stepped onto her office balcony, neighbors shook their fists and shouted "Communist...
Many share the desire of Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, founder of a more moderate and less monied organization called Cambio Cubano (Cubans for Change), to see a more measured policy toward the Havana regime, including direct negotiations with Castro to encourage a phased-in democracy. Says Menoyo: "We want the people to emerge from this with their lives, liberty and their rights. The measures that Clinton is taking serve only to make 11 million Cubans -- everyone except Castro -- suffer." He complains that his organization cannot get Washington's ear because it has less money and political influence than Mas Canosa...
...Wednesday on the Malecon, where Havana meets the swelling breast of its bay. The Malecon is Cuba's promenade, its boardwalk, its Champs Elysees. Across the Straits of Florida in Miami, kingdom of dollars, citadel of wealth unimaginable, the exiles have a favorite T shirt: it portrays the Malecon after Castro's fall as an endless vista of shiny, neon-lighted fast-food joints. The crumbling, once graceful seafront is still a long way from that plastic vision. Potuombo gestures at the crowd in his cafe, who are placidly consuming not Whoppers or Big Macs but the tepid brown soda...
People stay because many Cubans are still loyal to the revolution -- if not the man -- that they believe gave them 30 good years. According to people on the street and in their homes in Havana and its environs, it is mainly the economic deprivations of the past four that have shaken their faith and their pride. Every Cuban must work out his own calculation for the moment when devotion turns to desperation, when the hardships become too much to bear, when the natural desire to stay is overpowered by the need to go. This summer that moment came for thousands...
...warrens of Old Havana, farther along the bay, Ana, 25, has another generation in mind: that of her three-year-old son. He has been waiting for a hernia operation for two years. At his day-care center, which lacks books and toys, there is no Mercurochrome for skinned knees. "All the children have colds," Ana explains. Flushed with anger, she beckons a visitor to accompany her to the nearest pharmacy. "Is there aspirin?" she demands of the clerk. "Is there flu medicine for my baby?" The answer, as always, is no. "You see!" she says. "They take...