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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...
...Clinton ever had hopes he could warm up relations with Cuba, they are gone now that Republicans control Capitol Hill. Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and other powerful lawmakers are convinced that Castro is on the verge of collapse and should be squeezed even harder to precipitate his downfall. Last week they introduced legislation that would intensify the embargo, and it stands a good chance of passing intact. Clinton officials were caught unawares by the new bill, which would punish foreign companies doing business with Cuba. Among its provisos: Americans whose property was expropriated by Cuba could...
Most U.S. allies regard the embargo as a useless obsession that has failed to bring Castro down for three decades. Last October the U.N. General Assembly recommended an end to the embargo by a vote of 101 to 2; only Israel joined the U.S. in saying no. ``Why should the U.S. maintain economic sanctions against Castro if it is willing to trade with Hanoi and Beijing?'' asks a European diplomat. A senior Clinton official can only reply, ``History matters.'' The Administration, he says, ``probably wouldn't seek to create an embargo if it didn't already exist. But there...
...Helms bill may hurt the U.S. more than Castro. Gary Jarmin, head of the new, conservative U.S.-Cuba Foundation, argues that Helms' bill will only help Castro score anti-American propaganda points. Echoing the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, he argues that ``a massive infusion of capital and contacts will have the best chance of encouraging reform.'' At the worst, tightening the embargo might provoke a bloody revolution that would not serve Washington's interest in a peaceful transition, says Gillian Gunn, director of the Cuba Project at Georgetown University. Most likely, the bill will not affect Cuba much...
...minimal information and wasn't a member of any loan committee.'' Nonetheless a second arrest warrant was issued last week for Ricardo and 18 other former Banco Latino directors, this time for embezzling public funds. The new charges carry a prison sentence of two to 10 years. - Orlando Castro, a Cuban refugee who owned businesses in half a dozen countries, including the failed Banco Progreso and Banco Republica and 42 Venezuelan radio stations. He has lost all his Venezuelan holdings, which he had pledged as collateral for government loans to the banks. Charged with having violated an order...