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(original title: High-speed escape) |
Economist
Greater optimism at home has not stopped the exodus to the United States
WITH Fidel Castro formally out of office and some signs of greater optimism among Cuba’s citizens about the possibility of social and economic change, you might expect fewer people to risk their lives by seeking to escape the island by sea.
Not so, apparently. The number of Cubans trying to smuggle their way into America is the highest it has been for more than a decade. The United States Coast Guard…
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BY RUI FERREIRA AND HELENA POLEO | El Nuevo Herald
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart points to a trade publication article as evidence of a Democratic plan to unseat him and two other Republican Cuban-American members of Congress in an effort to lift the embargo.
U.S. Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart says the likelihood of a contender for his seat is a Democratic Party strategy to soften U.S. policy toward Cuba after he and other Cuban-American members in Congress have successfully maintained a hard line toward the communist island.
‘’What you have now is a [Democratic] decision…
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Enrique Martinez carries an order at the Versailles Restaurant on Calle Ocho in Little Havana
ALAN DIAZ/AP PHOTO
BY TERE FIGUERAS NEGRETE | Miami Herald
Felipe Valls has a soft spot for the crowd of men that converge, like clockwork, at the counter of his Calle Ocho eatery for their daily ritual of cafecitos and politics.
He has even toyed with the idea of a sign outside his landmark Versailles restaurant, a tongue-in-cheek riff on McDonald’s famous boast.
‘’Castro killed here over a…
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By Ian Swanson | TheHill.com
For decades, Miami Cuban-Americans have been a reliable Republican voting bloc and three GOP incumbents who represent that community in the House have rarely faced significant opposition.
Now Florida Democrats are trying to mount a meaningful challenge, in part by convincing Raul Martinez, the colorful former Democratic mayor of Hialeah, to take on Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R), an eight-term incumbent and scion of a powerful Cuban émigré family.
Martinez is exactly the kind of candidate Democrats would need to seriously challenge Diaz-Balart because their battle would take place in…
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Attorneys Carlos Enriquez, left, Sergio Mendez, Jose I. Valdes, Luis E. Barreto and Enrique Zamora are on a rotating list of local lawyers who receive a special license to travel to Cuba to represent the rights of Cubans claiming inheritances in the United States. ROBERTO KOLTUN/EL NUEVO HERALD STAFF
BY WILFREDO CANCIO ISLA | El Nuevo Herald
Since 2003, Cuba and the United States have cooperated closely to settle lawsuits and cases of inheritance involving more than $50 million and hundreds of Cuban families on both sides of the…
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BY JORGE VALENCIA | Miami Herald
A South Florida businessman was sentenced to 2 � years in prison Friday morning for conspiring in a scheme to violate Cuba travel restrictions through licenses of bogus churches.
Victor Vazquez, 40, of Pompano Beach, was sentenced in a Miami federal court by U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck as one of the country’s first defendants charged for illegally obtaining religious travel licenses to circumvent a more than 44-year-old travel ban to Cuba.
The case has triggered other investigations by a U.S. Attorney’s task force targeting violators of…
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BY JAY WEAVER | Miami Herald
Posing as men of the cloth, businessman Victor Vazquez and his wealthy friend David Margolis flew back and forth to Cuba by cleverly exploiting a religious loophole in the long-standing travel ban to the communist island nation.
On the afternoon of Dec. 13, 2006, a team of U.S. Treasury and Customs agents finally caught up with them upon their return to Miami International Airport.
When asked about the Fort Lauderdale waterfront home that he used as a ‘’church’’ to obtain his religious license, Margolis admitted, ``You have me…
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Original title: Study: How to Recoup Assets in Cuba
By OSKAR GARCIA Associated Press Writer
Federal officials planning for a post-Fidel Castro Cuba were sent recommendations Thursday on how to handle a decades-old puzzle: recouping billions of dollars for those whose assets were seized after the dictator took power in 1959.
A group of Creighton University scholars commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development based their advice on speculation of how Cuba will move forward after Castro dies.
Castro, 81, has not been out in public since July last year, announcing…
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Miami Herald
Hundreds of Cuban exiles jammed into the Manuel Artime Community Center in Little Havana Monday night to discuss the future of a free Cuba as the group Unidad Cubana issued a “Declaration from Miami.’’
Among the document’s provisions: that Cuban leader Fidel Castro not be allowed to pass power to his brother Raul; that once Cuba is free, the United States should step in and help rebuild the island; that the Communist Party be banned from the island; and that the exile community ‘’be given a say when it is time to pick a…
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