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...most of the world, Gloria Estefan is a pop superstar, the goddess of salsa, the muse of Miami. But in the city dubbed Little Havana because of its large Cuban-exile population, Estefan, 40, is more than that. She is the emotion-laden embodiment of the Cuban-American dream. Her family fled Castro's communist regime when she was just two years old, and today thousands of Cuban exiles celebrate her success as though it were their own. Gloria, they exult, is the "glory" of Cuba...
...about the tale of rookie pitcher and Cuban defector, Livan Hernandez. This 22-year-old who fled his homeland just over one year ago finally achieved his dream of pitching in the Major Leagues, and then turned that dream into a fantasy. He started the season 9-0 as a starter and then set a National League Championship Series record for most strikeouts in a game with 15 Ks in Game...
...Cuban Missile Crisis ? 13 days that shook the world ? began when President Kennedy was brought reconnaissance photos showing ominous dark gray patches where they shouldn't be: Ninety miles south of the United States...
...world has never been closer to nuclear war than it was 35 years ago, during the heart-stopping days of the Cuban missile crisis. The confrontation started when the Soviet Union began covertly shipping into Fidel Castro's Cuba 72 nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, capable of wiping out U.S. cities from Florida to the Pacific Northwest. American U-2 spy planes spotted them, and on Oct. 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy began 13 days of crisis meetings with senior advisers in what he called the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. As the wise men secretly gathered...
Ostensibly, his career will begin Dec. 12, when the world will see him in Steven Spielberg's film "Amistad." Ashong plays Buakey, an African slave who takes part in a 19th century rebellion while on a Cuban ship crossing the Atlantic. The leading role is Ashong's first professional acting...