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...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...
...that is not enough. He dreams of a house overlooking the bay in his native Santiago de Cuba. He dreams of converting the island back to capitalism. And he dreams of becoming its first democratically elected President when Castro is gone. "I have a right to dream of a model republic for Cuba," he says. "If I'm criticized for that, fine. But the Cuban people themselves think the foundation is the logical option after Castro. We have practically won, and Fidel has lost...
From an office in a Miami industrial park, Mas plots his return with an army of economists, lawyers and corporate executives. A committee of businessmen has drawn up a $15 billion blueprint for economic reconstruction, complete with an inventory of government property to be privatized after Castro's fall. An economic peace corps of 10,000 Cuban-American professionals will be trained to fan out across the island and teach free-market methods to their bewildered communist comrades. Lawyers have drafted principles for a new constitution. Videotapes smuggled into Cuba reassure islanders about the exiles' plans, and the foundation...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Richard Behar, Janice Castro, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Christine Gorman, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Thomas McCarroll, Richard N. Ostling, Priscilla Painton, Janice C. Simpson, Jill Smolowe, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...
CAPTION: Do you care whether Fidel Castro remains in power in Cuba...