Word: lazaro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rescued in good condition and is being cared for by relatives in Miami. But he cries out at night, fearing that he's being abandoned each time the cousin whose bedroom he shares gets up to use the bathroom. "Physically, he's perfect," says Elian's great-uncle Lazaro Gonzalez, an auto mechanic. "But I worry about what he's in the middle...
...Cuban balseros, or rafters--double the number from last year. As many as 60 others are believed to have drowned. Driving the exodus are Cuba's poverty and political repression, generous U.S. immigration rules for Cubans and the unprecedented rise of paid refugee smugglers. Elizabet's boyfriend Lazaro Munero charged $1,000 each from the 13 passengers whom he jammed into his 17-ft. powerboat...
...unseated the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) in 1988's apparently fraud-smeared presidential election, his star fell so fast that he finished a distant third in the 1994 contest for Los Pinos palace. Despite his illustrious pedigree--he lived at the palace in the 1930s, when his father Lazaro was one of Mexico's most popular Presidents--the more people saw of Cardenas the less they liked him. His ultraleft ideology was a turnoff, and his plodding campaign style made voters ready for a siesta...
...Kleenex boxes scrawled with names and numbers. "Call my mother," refugees pleaded. "Please let my uncle know I'm O.K." They do not even want to talk about what they will do if they have to stay in Guantanamo for good, and refuse to believe that will happen. Says Lazaro Rubio, a 30- year-old sculptor who has both parents, three brothers and three sisters living in Miami: "Our only struggle is to be unified with our families...