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...American political goals" but said it would cooperate with the U.N.'s humanitarian program. CUBA Carter Stirs It Up Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter waded into the delicate area of U.S.-Cuba relations during the first visit by a U.S. leader since 1959. In a speech broadcast live from Havana University, Carter called for an end to the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, but he also urged leader Fidel Castro to initiate political reforms. The former President said he had come to "extend a hand of friendship" to Cuba's people. But the White House saw things differently, saying...
When U.S. Congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans travel freely to Cuba, Fidel Castro had his top aides meet with Flake to ask whether the measure could really pass. "Yes," Flake said, "and tell Castro that if he doesn't behave, we're going to bring down the whole darn embargo...
...Everyone laughed, but it wasn't altogether a joke. The not so well-kept secret in Havana is that Castro, 75, has always been a fan of the 40-year-old U.S. trade embargo against his communist island. El bloqueo, as Cubans call the "blockade," has helped Castro deflect blame for his economic blunders. Whenever the U.S. has looked poised to end the embargo, Castro has managed to unleash an outrage that has kept it alive, as in 1996, when his air force shot down and killed four Cuban exiles from Miami flying unarmed small planes near Havana...
...embargo will help bring down Castro and those who believe it actually props him up and denies the U.S. any political influence on processes already underway that could shape post-Castro Cuba. More interesting, perhaps, will be its impact in Cuba. After all, the state propaganda machine in Havana will have little trouble packaging whatever denunciations President Bush utters in Miami next week - they'll simply be cited as further evidence of the "external threat" that Castro uses to rally Cubans, much as he did during the Elian Gonzales saga. But how that same propaganda machine will deal with...
...Both the Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology Center (known by its Spanish initials CIGB) and the Finlay Institute are part of a massive biomedical complex on Havana's west side known as the "Scientific Pole." The CIGB alone takes up some more than 120,000 square feet, mostly full of gray, monolithic Soviet-era buildings, but laid out in a campus style reminiscent of U.S. software firms. Some of the hemisphere's most advanced research in pharmaceuticals, immunology, mammal cell genetics, plant molecular biology and even plant cloning and transgenic experimentation is conducted at the CIGB. The buildings are crammed with state...