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...Even so, Castro seems thoroughly in control. The ability of many Cubans to describe harrowing privation and in almost the same breath profess loyalty to Fidel -- or at worst a kind of numb resignation -- is startling. Raise, 31, an engineer, pauses along the Almendares River in western Havana to watch the return of several rafts that had tried to make it across the Straits of Florida but were forced by bad weather to turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing...
Some experts think Castro's most likely course is to emulate China, combining a turn toward economic freedom with continued political control. While that would be far from ideal, it would still be in the U.S. interest to encourage it and seek through negotiation to promote political loosening too. The best way to do that would be to talk to Castro. Trade and investment that % might relieve Cuba's economic despair are the only ways to reduce the refugee flow permanently, even if Castro stays in power. His days of encouraging red revolution throughout the hemisphere are long since over...
...Alvarez, Jaime Diaz, Orlando Garcia, Ernesto Molina Sosa. For 95 minutes, until he became too hoarse to continue, Miami radio personality Tomas Garcia Fuste broadcast a list of 1,793 Cubans who fled their country last week only to wind up at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. For listeners on Castro's island, the roll call provided welcome assurance that their loved ones had at least not perished in the treacherous Florida Straits...
...passionate debate over Washington's response to the wave of U.S.-bound refugees. Long a solid bastion of conservative influence, the more than 1 million Cuban Americans in South Florida are torn over the wisdom of denying entry to the rafters, over President Clinton's refusal to negotiate with Castro, over the best approach to pry the Cuban leader from power...
...strategy of Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, a leading voice of the exiles. Accused of being every bit as autocratic as the dictator he despises, Mas Canosa threw his support behind Clinton's decision to bottle up the refugees to keep the pressure on Castro. Mas Canosa insists that the Administration's economic crackdown and its refusal to deal with Castro will eventually embolden Cubans to drive him from power. "We all want a peaceful solution in Cuba, but that's not what Castro wants," he says. "He is leading the country toward a violent...