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This is a work of considerable accomplishment and historic importance: the first Cuban film to be shown in the U.S. since relations with Havana grew grim. Indeed, Washington spent a great deal of time deciding whether to let the movie into the country at all, and finally decided to allow it to be shown "for educational purposes...
Raimundo López, a Havana physician, was more interested in practicing medicine than politics. But once Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, López found himself unable to separate the two. When he refused to join the Communist Party, he lost his job at Havana's Calixto Garcia Hospital. His position was further undermined when his wife's brother was killed as he sought asylum at a foreign embassy. Finally López applied for permission to leave Cuba, was allowed to emigrate in 1969, and after an eight-month stopover in Mexico, arrived...
...revolutionaries had other demands as well. They wanted their Marxist-lining manifesto published on the front pages of leading dailies throughout Mexico. They specified a time for Cuba's representative in Mexico to appear on national television and report the safe arrival in Havana of the 30 compañeros. They also warned that there was to be no army or police mobilization in the Guadalajara area while negotiations were going...
Demand. The deal was made: the 30 prisoners flown to Havana, the proclamation duly printed, the police leashed. Cuba's chargé d'affaires appeared, as specified, on television to report that the freed rebels had safely arrived in Havana. But then Leonhardy's captors made an additional demand for his freedom: $80,000 in ransom money. A day later, the ransom was paid; nine hours afterward, Leonhardy was found, exhausted and unshaven, in a Guadalajara street. He called his 76-hour captivity a "terrible ordeal. I prayed a lot. I didn't know when they...
...some months, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...