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First, Castro placed so many conditions on the U.S. visit of Elian's father that he appeared to be trying to keep a juicy propaganda battle raging. Then the mayor of Miami-Dade County declared that his police won't help enforce the law if the time comes to deliver Elian to his dad. Miami-Dade, which is 40% Cuban, suddenly looked like a rogue republic in the Everglades. And Al Gore--plainly campaigning for Cuban-American votes--broke with Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno by siding with the exiles who want to keep Elian in the U.S. Says...
That task looked doubly difficult after Miami-Dade County Mayor Alex Penelas, a Cuban American, made his vow not to help federal officials enforce any order to return Elian. Penelas then all but tossed a match into the city's powder keg by declaring he would hold Clinton and Reno "responsible for anything that may occur." But Penelas--a Democrat who dreams of a Cabinet post if Gore wins next fall--felt affirmed a day later when Gore backed congressional bills to give Elian, his father and other Cuban family members instant U.S. residency, and argued for moving the case...
...Miami's Cuban-American leaders, welcoming Castro's artists is a worse affront. "To people who've been tortured in his jails, it's an insult to allow Cuban propaganda here," says Miami-Dade County Commissioner Pedro Reboredo...
...does most of the entertainment qualify as propaganda? Los Van Van's lyrics eschew politics. The critically acclaimed Cuban film La Vida Es Silbar (Life Is to Whistle), which was shown at a Miami film festival last month, is critical of Castro's society. (Nonetheless, Miami-Dade County has threatened to pull its $49,000 funding for the festival.) Members of the popular and apolitical Cuban music troupe Buena Vista Social Club, which recently played Carnegie Hall, were supposed to perform on Miami Beach this year but pulled out because of safety concerns...
...ordinance could cost Miami an estimated quarter-billion dollars in lost revenue over the next decade. For years, the city has groomed itself as a nexus of culture. But Miami-Dade officials pushed away this year's Latin Grammy Awards--and the projected $40 million they would mean to the local economy--because Cubans might perform. And that's a fraction of the $130 million the scuttled 2007 Pan American Games (which will include Cuban athletes) would have brought...