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...Castro has a game plan of sorts, so has Clinton: keep Cuban migrants at home and Castro bottled up. Two weeks ago, the U.S. began sending 7,500 rafters temporarily housed in Panama to Guantanamo to fulfill a pledge that they would not stay more than six months. The Cubans, who rioted in December, were angry at being returned to the island they had fled. ``We are political pawns,'' said Alberto Lujardo as he walked off the plane at Guantanamo. ``We've been betrayed by the U.S. government and by the communist government of Cuba...
...commercial interests rely heavily on Peru and Ecuador. Conflicts in Panama and Kuwait threatened the purses of this country's wealthy and powerful, thus thousands of Americans flew in to make business safe again. Though Ecuador can claim membership in OPEC and some very rich oil reserves, those veins of black gold aren't anywhere near the fighting and are too small to mean much...
Under heavy military guard, the first planeloads of Cuban refugees were forcibly returned from Panama to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Last September President Ernesto Perez Balladares agreed to allow up to 10,000 boat people to stay in Panama at U.S. detention camps for a six-month period. Nearly 8,000 Cuban children and close relatives have since qualified to emigrate to the U.S., provided they have full financial sponsorship. To transfer the remaining refugees by the March 6 deadline, American forces will airlift out 500 people almost every...
...Central American book will add coverage of El Salvador and Panama and expand that on Costa Rica, Fitzpatrick said...
...troops in Panama City tightened security and mobilized anti-riot squads today as they prepared to repatriate 7,500 Cubans held there sincelast summer's boatlift crisis. It won't be easy: almost none of the refugees wants to return to the spartan U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and so far, at least 13 have scaled chain-link fences topped by razor wire surrounding the camps, two have drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and another dozen have attempted suicide. (Only 1,171 out of the nearly 8,500 originally brought there from Guantanamo have obtained visas...