Word: fidelitys
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...chairs and other objects thrown into the wide streets and burned. "We are peaceful people. We are not violent. Look at what they have turned us into," says Alex Lugo, 34, a math teacher. "Janet Reno is a coward. We want the world to understand that Janet Reno and Fidel Castro have hurt this little...
...liked the idea of handing Fidel Castro a prize. In Havana the reaction was subdued; the government cautioned Cubans that the fight for Elian wasn't over yet. Nevertheless, Fidel thanked Clinton, Reno and "American public opinion." He added, "The child may have cried for five minutes, but at least he's now spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin...
...impossible to dissociate political motives from this issue, but if any party is to remain true to the best interests of the boy it should be the Cuban-American community. The particular experiences of Cuban-American exiles afford them a special insight into the matter. Yes, the exiles resent Fidel Castro, but they are not blinded by their hatred. Instead, they are keenly aware of what awaits Elian in Cuba. The passions that have been stirred in Miami are rooted in the exiles' conviction that the boy should not endure the sufferings from which they have fled. Thousands of Cubans...
...visit the U.S. for two weeks to keep the boy company. While the Miami relatives are certain to pursue their efforts to keep Elian on these shores, for the GOP leadership and the Cuban-American activist community the emphasis may shift to a more generic campaign against both Fidel Castro and the Clinton administration. MORE...
...Elian Gonzalez case has been like that--two mutually contradictory games played simultaneously. The fly-fishing part involves the father, the son, the family, the boy's welfare. But the lions--Fidel Castro and the exiles in Miami--are up to another sport entirely: carnivorous politics. The problem is this: How to square a satisfying political solution (much better to keep the boy in the U.S., especially since his mother died trying to get him there) with the commonsense human (and legal) solution--that the boy belongs with his father...