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Participants first grappled over the causes of Cuba's grim economic situation. Cuba's woes are "not the result of United States policy," said Richard A. Nuccio of the State Department's Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. "[They are] the result of Cuban policies...
...Cuban Athletes Defect...
...Forty Cubans, most of them members of Cuban sports teams, have defected to the U.S. at the Central American Caribbean Games taking place in Puerto Rico...
...streets of Havana there is little proto-capitalist bustle. The government says 86,000 people out of Cuba's 11 million have applied for the required license, but it is not easy to find the new mom-and-pop enterprises. Canadian mining executive Bill McGuinty thinks his Cuban co-workers are eager to learn capitalist ways -- up to a point. They are shocked by his attempts to bypass bureaucracy and befuddled by the quid pro quos of networking. "It will take a while for the mentality to change," he says. "They have gone from 34 years of working together...
...after four years of declining rations, Mario Caballero, a 52-year- old school administrator in Santiago de Cuba, is one of the older generation whose faith in Fidel is well-nigh religious. If his rhetoric recalls communist dogma of the '50s, it still reflects sentiments deeply etched in the Cuban soul. "Before, our best land was Yankee. The sugar was Yankee. The electric system was Yankee. The phones were Yankee." Never mind that the sugar crop is failing for the second year, that electricity and phones rarely work. "We may be living through a special period," he says...