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Ending the embargo is still Castro's Plan A. The rafters were a way of forcing Clinton to look again at the sanctions. Another was last week's carefully orchestrated conferences in Madrid between Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina and three leaders of the Cuban opposition based in Miami. The three -- Ramon Cernuda, Alfredo Duran and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo -- are all considered moderates in the world of Cuban exile politics, and all strongly favor lifting the U.S. embargo...
...trips to Cuba, by contrast, have brought home to me only that the country's agony lies in its proximity to the world. Nearly everyone in Cuba has close relatives in the U.S., 90 miles away, and the opportunity, increasingly, to meet (and mate) with visitors from Toronto and Madrid. Fidel Castro, if only out of shrewdness, has decreed that no school or street may be named after the living (hence Che Guevara is ubiquitous), and insofar as he has developed a personality cult, has done so mostly by default: revealing almost nothing about himself, and letting speculation...
Meetings in Madrid last night and this morning between Cuba's foreign minister and leaders of the Cuban exile community in the U.S. could lead to "concrete political changes," the exiles said. The talks between Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina and the leaders, first reported by TIME Daily yesterday, marked Fidel Castro's first recognition of his opposition during three decades in power. Robaina met with Ramon Cernuda of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and Reconciliation, Alfredo Duran, a Cuban-born former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party and longtime Miami-area political activist, and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo...
...Cuba talks, held since Friday, seemed no closer to solving the refugee crisis despite a U.S. offer to admit more than 20,000 Cubans a year. A 45-minute meeting today reportedly contained an undisclosed Cuban response, and the two sides are to resume talks Wednesday morning. In Madrid, Cuba's Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina denied reports that Cuba would only be satisfied with a whopping 100,000 immigration ceiling. Meanwhile, 100 Cuban refugees in the Guantanamo Naval base volunteered to be moved out of the camp and put aboard planes for Panama, which has agreed to accept several thousand...
...anniversary has drawn damning accusations that the bank has damaged the environment, bolstered authoritarian regimes and favored rich people over poor ones. The criticism is getting noisy and forceful. A loose coalition of several hundred groups plans to send thousands of demonstrators to the bank's annual summit in Madrid in October. And last week the U.S. Senate voted to make a $1.2 billion contribution to the World Bank contingent on the bank's proving its loans make economic sense and do not deface the landscape...