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CUBA
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The Miami Herald
Cuban travel rules get tougher
By Wilfredo Cancio Isla,
El Nuevo Herald. May 7, 2007.
A new Cuban government regulation that
took effect Wednesday will make it more
difficult for some Cubans abroad to invite
relatives and friends on the island to visit
them.
Resolution 87/2007, issued by the Foreign
Ministry, requires such invitations to be
submitted through Cuban consulates abroad,
notarized and in accordance with the laws
of the country where they are requested.
But the consulates will ''have the authority
to reject the invitation when there are
elements that recommend that,'' added the
resolution, published in the official gazette.
Many Cubans have long used such invitations
as a way of obtaining Cuban government permission
to leave the island and remain abroad.
Before the new regulation, the invitations
could be certified in Cuba at the International
Legal Consultancy, a quasi-government agency
with branches in Havana and other parts
of Cuba.
That option could speed up the process
and make it cheaper, but was open to corruption.
The regulation will affect Cuban Americans
who used the Consultancy to certify their
invitations, but not those who use U.S.-based
travel agencies to handle their invitations.
Those agencies already process their invitations
through the Cuban consulate in Washington,
agency officials said.
''I believe this measure was conceived
to rationalize and guarantee the consular
work on a process that was totally out of
control,'' said Armando García, president
of the Marazul travel agency in Miami.
Judge drops charges against Posada
By Jay Weaver And Alfonso
Chardy. jweaver@MiamiHerald.com. Posted
on Tue, May. 08, 2007.
HAVANA -- A federal judge issued a stunning
decision Tuesday when she dismissed the
immigration fraud charges against Luis Posada
Carriles, the Cuban exile militant who was
facing trial starting Friday in El Paso,
Texas.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone issued
a lengthy written order scrapping the indictment
that accused Posada, 79, of lying to immigration
officials about how he sneaked into the
country in March 2005.
U.S. officials were caught off guard by
Cardone's ruling, saying the Bush administration
was just now beginning to weigh its options.
''We are reviewing the decision,'' said
Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman
in Washington when asked if the government
planned to appeal.
Immigration authorities would not say whether
they plan to take Posada into custody again.
''We have been notified of the indictment
being dismissed, and we'll take appropriate
action,'' said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman
for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Posada was in El Paso with his lawyer,
Arturo Hernandez, celebrating the surprise
move by the Bush-appointed judge.
Last month she had granted Posada a $350,000
bond that allowed him to stay with his wife,
Nieves, at her West Kendall apartment under
24-hour house arrest. He's scheduled to
return to Miami Wednesday, Hernandez's office
said.
Officer slain by Cuban draftees is honored
An officer killed in an
attempted hijacking when three Cuban draftees
went AWOL was laid to rest with full military
honors
By Frances Robles. frobles@MiamiHerald.com.
A medal for bravery was awarded posthumously
Friday to the Cuban lieutenant colonel taken
hostage and killed by AWOL draftees, as
he was laid to rest with military honors,
the Cuban media reported.
Lt. Col. Víctor Ibo Acuña,
a communications officer, was killed early
Thursday when two soldiers who had deserted
their military base hijacked the city bus
he was riding in.
BUS HIJACKING
The conscripts forced the bus to Havana's
José Martí Airport, and marched
the hostages aboard an empty airliner.
Once in the cabin, an unarmed Acuña,
41, was shot four times when he tried to
prevent the hijacking, the Cuban government
said.
He left behind a wife and two daughters,
ages 9 and 5.
The two deserters were subsequently captured.
They and a third soldier on Sunday fled
their military base in Managua, southeast
of the airport, the Cuban government said.
In their bold escape attempt, they stole
two AK assault rifles and killed another
soldier guarding the base.
One of the deserters was captured with
help from the community in a massive manhunt
that followed.
The man told authorities that the purpose
of the escape was to flee the island, the
Ministry of Interior said in a statement.
U.S. POLICY BLAMED
The statement, published in today's Cuban
newspapers, blamed U.S. immigration policy
for encouraging Cubans to migrate illegally.
Acuña, credited for ''heroically
trying to avoid this terrorist act'' was
buried with full honors in a Pinar del Río
funeral.
Photos published by the province's Guerrillero
newspaper showed a flag-draped coffin flanked
by soldiers wearing fatigues, white gloves
and black armbands.
''This is a very painful moment for my
family,'' his brother Isidoro Acuña
told the Spanish news agency
EFE.
Translator Renato Pérez contributed
to this report.
FBI's Cuba trip draws rebuke
Three Cuban-American
lawmakers in Washington expressed anger
that federal investigators visited Cuba
recently to gather evidence against Cuban
exile militant Luis Posada Carriles.
By Alfonso Chardy And Jay
Weaver, achardy@MiamiHerald.com. Posted
on Fri, May. 04, 2007.
South Florida's three Cuban-American members
of Congress condemned the Justice Department
Thursday for sending Miami FBI agents to
Cuba to collect evidence against Luis Posada
Carriles in a hotel bombing that killed
an Italian in Havana a decade ago.
'By asking a state sponsor of terrorism
for 'evidence' regarding terrorism, the
Bush administration Justice Department demonstrates
a shockingly profound ignorance of the nature
of terrorism, of its origins and its state
sponsors,'' U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
and brothers Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart
said in a statement.
It marked the first official public expression
of anger over a heightening grand jury investigation
in Newark, N.J. The former CIA-trained explosives
expert was detained by immigration agents
in Miami-Dade two years ago.
Posada, 79, is under house arrest at his
wife's home in West Kendall while he awaits
a May 11 trial in Texas on immigration fraud
charges unrelated to the bombing.
The three Republican lawmakers blasted
the Justice Department on the same day The
Miami Herald published an article about
the FBI's trip to Cuba in the fall.
Mario Díaz-Balart's office said
he would not comment further. The other
lawmakers did not return calls, but at least
one member of Florida's congressional delegation
said members were briefed about the FBI's
trip months ago.
The FBI's Miami office and the Justice
Department, which is running the hotel bombing
investigation, declined to comment.
COOPERATION
The United States and Cuba have cooperated
case-by-case on various issues since Fidel
Castro seized power in 1959, even in the
absence of normal relations. Such cooperation
extended to alien smuggling, hijacking and
other criminal cases, including a congressional
probe of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
''Federal prosecutors and agents travel
all over the world searching for evidence
of violations of U.S. laws,'' said Miami
lawyer David Buckner, the former federal
prosecutor who successfully tried five Cuban
spies in 2001 and traveled to Cuba with
a team to question defense witnesses.
''Sometimes their pursuit of that evidence
takes them to places they would rather not
be, but they go because they're doing their
jobs,'' he said.
Cuba is on the list of the State Department's
''state sponsors of terrorism,'' along with
Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria. The
list does not preclude U.S. officials traveling
to those countries.
On Thursday, for instance, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice met with the Syrian
foreign minister and greeted Iran's foreign
minister during an international conference
on Iraq at an Egyptian resort.
This is not the first time South Florida's
Cuban-American lawmakers have intervened
in a case dealing with the Cuban exile militant.
A few years ago when Posada was imprisoned
in Panama for his role in an alleged plot
to assassinate Fidel Castro, they lobbied
the Panamanian government to pardon Posada
along with three fellow exile militants.
Then-Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso
pardoned the men in August 2004 and released
them.
Posada went into hiding. He resurfaced
in Miami soon after sneaking into the United
States in March 2005. His illegal entry
revived the FBI's probe into the hotel bombings.
LACK OF PROGRESS
The investigation had been shut down in
2003 for lack of progress after U.S. authorities
failed to get any solid evidence during
trips to Cuba from 1998 to 2000.
In the most recent trip, FBI agents were
given better access by Cuban officials and
were able to interview witnesses, review
Cuba's forensic evidence and visit crime
scenes, according to three sources familiar
with the journey.
The trip may result in a stronger case
against Posada, but it only served to exasperate
some exiles and the three congressional
members.
'The only 'evidence' that the terrorist
regime in Havana could provide the United
States with regard to the twice-acquitted-in-Venezuela-Mr.
Posada or anyone else would be fabricated
evidence,'' Ros-Lehtinen and the Díaz-Balart
brothers said in their statement.
"The evidence that the Bush administration
Justice Department needs to bring forth
and stop ignoring is of the murder of U.S.
citizens and other crimes committed with
impunity by the Castro brothers and their
henchmen.''
1976 BOMBING
The congressional members' reference to
the Venezuela acquittals pertained to Posada's
alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban
jetliner that killed 73 people.
Posada was acquitted by a military court
in 1980 in Venezuela but fled prison in
1985 while awaiting retrial in a civilian
court.
He has denied any role in the plane assault.
The National Security Archive at George
Washington University released documents
Thursday from the 1970s related to the Cuban
plane bombing. One of the documents included
a ''surveillance report'' by a Venezuelan
who worked for Posada's private security
firm in Caracas. The Venezuelan, Hernan
Ricardo Lozano, listed several ''targets''
-- including Cuban jetliner flights, according
to the archive.
Ricardo was convicted in Venezuela after
Posada fled. Ricardo served about 10 years
in prison.
Cuba and Venezuela have demanded that Posada
be extradited or prosecuted for the hotel
bombings and the deadly attack on the Cuban
jetliner. Posada initially claimed credit
for masterminding the tourist-site attacks,
but he later retracted the claim.
FBI, Cuba cooperating on Posada
U.S. authorities have
stepped up their probe of a 1997 Havana
bombing as Cuban exile militant Luis Posada
Carriles awaits trial on other charges in
Texas.
By Alfonso Chardy, Oscar
Corral And Jay Weaver, ocorral@MiamiHerald.com.
Posted on Thu, May. 03, 2007.
The FBI office in Miami has been quietly
gathering evidence on a 1997 bombing that
killed an Italian man at a Havana hotel,
with agents traveling to the Cuban capital
recently to see if they can link Cuban exile
militant Luis Posada Carriles to the attack.
The extraordinary effort at cooperation
between the two countries underscores their
shared goal to pin the plot on Posada, the
focus of a federal grand jury probe in Newark,
N.J. Posada, a former CIA operative trained
in explosives, is under house arrest at
his wife's West Kendall apartment as he
awaits trial on immigration fraud charges
unrelated to the bombing.
''Anything that comes from Cuba is fruit
of the poisonous tree,'' said Posada's attorney,
Arturo Hernandez. "We deny these charges,
and we will vigorously defend Mr. Posada
against them if they ever come to fruition.
This is part of the Castro regime's full-court
press against my client.''
Human rights and exile groups ask how Cuba's
justice system can be trusted when it routinely
jails dissidents and journalists with scant
evidence.
The Cuban Interests Section in Washington
did not return phone calls Wednesday seeking
comment.
The 79-year-old Posada, a hero to exiles
for his anti-Castro exploits, has long been
considered a suspect in the bombing but
avoided criminal scrutiny until he showed
up in Miami in March 2005.
Publicly, the Cuban government has accused
the Bush administration of coddling Posada,
but a behind-the-scenes détente allowed
FBI agents to visit the island in fall 2006.
'AMAZING' JOURNEY
Three federal law enforcement officers
familiar with the case described the trip
as ''pretty amazing'' and ''unheard of''
because Cuba had for years blocked FBI access
to witnesses, crime scenes, forensic evidence
and more information in the bombing.
The Miami Herald agreed not to name the
officers because of the ongoing grand jury
investigation.
The sources said the trip was very productive
because agents were able to interview witnesses,
review Cuba's forensic evidence -- including
bombing materials -- and visit crime scenes,
though they declined to say exactly what
information was gathered.
The last time the two countries collaborated
on the hotel bombing was in 2000, according
to testimony during the ''Cuban Five'' spy
trial in Miami. But during those trips to
Havana, the FBI agents and a Miami-Dade
police officer obtained only newspaper reports
and biographies of the accused, not actual
evidence.
The bombing case stalled until August 2003,
when the FBI and U.S. attorney's office
said they shut down the probe and destroyed
some evidence as a routine matter -- only
to kick-start it after Posada's illegal
entry into the country in 2005. The Justice
Department's counterterrorism division is
running the probe.
The New Jersey grand jury is investigating
a group of Cuban exiles suspected of wiring
money to Central America to finance Posada's
alleged bombing campaign to harm Cuba's
tourism industry.
U.S. and Cuban government documents show
striking similarities in their separate
investigations into Posada. Two summaries
-- one by the FBI, the other by Cuba's chief
prosecutor -- allege a conspiracy stretching
from New Jersey to Miami to Central America
that climaxes in Havana.
Affidavits, faxes and statements from the
FBI's files and Cuba point to Posada as
the mastermind who coordinated donations,
recruits and explosives for alleged bombing
missions between 1993 and 1998.
''[T]he FBI is unable to rule out the possibility
that Posada Carriles poses a threat to the
national security of the United States,''
FBI agent Thomas Rice wrote in a June 10,
2005, affidavit, a month after immigration
agents arrested Posada in Miami.
The FBI's spokeswoman in Miami, Judy Orihuela,
declined to comment.
One suspected financier interviewed by
the grand jury, José Gonzálo,
denied involvement. ''I have nothing to
do with that,'' said Gonzálo, 44,
who lives in Union City, N.J., with his
father Ruben, who was also summoned to testify.
FBI'S ACCOUNT
The American version of events alleges
Posada hid plastic explosives in shampoo
bottles and shoes to be smuggled into Cuba
just weeks before the Sept. 4, 1997, fatal
bombing at the Copacabana Hotel.
The FBI's account is based largely on information
from a Cuban-American businessman who set
up a utility company in Guatemala City,
where he encountered Posada on several occasions.
In late August 1997, the businessman said
he and a co-worker discovered ''what appeared
to be explosive materials'' in the company's
office, where Posada regularly met with
two other workers. The businessman later
told the FBI the materials consisted of
22 transparent plastic tubes filled with
a tan substance. They were labeled with
the name of the manufacturer and ''high-power
explosives, extremely dangerous,'' in Spanish.
During the FBI's initial probe of the 1997
Cuba bombing, agents collected records showing
about $19,000 in wire transfers from the
United States to ''Ramon Medina,'' one of
Posada's aliases, in El Salvador and Guatemala
between Oct. 30, 1996, and Jan. 14, 1998.
In his 10-page affidavit, Rice refers to
an Aug. 25, 1997, fax intercepted by the
Cuban-American businessman's co-worker at
the Guatemala utility company. The cryptic
fax is signed Solo. U.S. authorities think
Posada sent the fax from El Salvador to
the company, addressed to two alleged co-conspirators.
Handwritten in Spanish, it refers to wire
money transfers totaling $3,200 from four
men in Union City, N.J., to pay a "hotel
bill.''
CUBA'S SUMMARY
The Cuban government's summary, which The
Miami Herald obtained from records filed
in Panama, relies on the account of Percy
Francisco Alvarado Godoy, a Guatemalan working
for Cuban intelligence.
In his 16-page written statement, Alvarado
Godoy claims to have secretly infiltrated
the Cuban American National Foundation in
1993. He maintains that Alfredo Domingo
Otero, who he describes as linked to the
foundation, instructed him to travel to
Guatemala, where he allegedly received the
explosives-filled shampoo and conditioner
bottles from Posada and a co-conspirator
identified only as "Pumarejo.''
Alvarado Godoy turned over the bombing
materials to Cuban state security and identified
Posada in a photo lineup as his handler,
the Cuban records say.
The FBI's affidavit makes no mention of
the foundation or Alvarado Godoy.
Cuba sent Alvarado Godoy's statement to
Panama in 2000 as part of an extradition
request for Posada, who was arrested with
several other exiles for allegedly plotting
to assassinate Fidel Castro during a presidential
summit. He was later pardoned and released.
Panama declassified those documents at
the request of The Miami Herald in 2005
after Posada arrived in Miami.
Jose Antonio Llama, a former member of
the Cuban American National Foundation,
told The Miami Herald last week that he
attended meetings where bombing a Cuban
hotel was discussed in the mid-1990s by
a few members who had formed a secret grupo
belico, or war group.
Llama, who said Posada was not part of
the alleged plot, attributed the idea of
the tourist site bombings to Arnaldo Monzón
Plasencia, an ex-foundation member from
New Jersey who has since died.
''He had a plan, the bombs in the hotel
in Cuba,'' Llama said. "The war group
was involved in obtaining democracy in Cuba
by whatever means.''
Llama had a falling out with the foundation
over money he says group leaders owed him
for buying equipment allegedly intended
to attack Cuban government interests.
'PEACEFUL TRANSITION'
The foundation responded in a statement:
"For over 26 years, we have advocated
for a peaceful transition towards democracy
in Cuba, one without bloodshed and rancor.
Any statements made by Mr. Llama to the
contrary are patently false, and any similarly
baseless accusations made by the Castro
regime should be viewed as a further attempt
to shift attention away from the terror
and repression they have inflicted on the
Cuban people for over 48 years.''
Cuba convicted two Salvadorans -- Otto
René Rodríguez Llerena and
Raúl Ernesto Cruz León --
of placing bombs at Havana tourist sites
in 1997.
The Cuban government says a bomb planted
by Cruz León at the Copacabana Hotel
killed Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo, whose
family is seeking Posada's prosecution.
SEEK PROSECUTION
Fidel Castro and his ally, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chávez, have demanded the United
States turn over Posada for prosecution
in the Havana attack and the 1976 bombing
of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people.
An immigration judge ruled Posada could
not be returned to either country because
he could be tortured.
As Posada waits in Miami for the start
of his immigration fraud trial May 11 in
El Paso, the Havana bombing could emerge
as the only alleged act of terrorism for
which the United States may try Posada.
2 officers killed as 3 Cubans desert
By Nancy San Martin, nsanmartin@MiamiHerald.com.
Posted on Thu, May. 03, 2007.
A Cuban military officer and a soldier
were killed when three young recruits deserted
their base and then tried to hijack a plane
to the United States Thursday, a Cuban Interior
Ministry statement said.
Two of the conscripts, who were captured,
killed a lieutenant colonel they took hostage
in the failed hijack attempt at Havana's
José Marti International Airport,
the statement said.
They and a third conscript, captured earlier,
had killed a soldier and wounded another
when they deserted April 29 from their military
base and made off with two AK-47 assault
rifles, the Interior Ministry statement
added.
The statement said the two captured at
the airport had hijacked a bus with several
passengers, guided it to the airport and
entered a plane that had no crew or passengers.
''One inside the airplane the murderers
killed one of the hostages, Revolutionary
Armed Forces Lt. Colonel Victo Ibo Acuña
Velasquez, who even though he was not armed
tried heroically to avert this terrorist
act,'' it said.
News services in Havana reported that the
airport shooting occurred around 4 a.m.
Human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez said
in telephone calls from Havana that he had
reports that relatives of the two conscripts
at the airport had persuaded them to surrender.
Military officers had been distributed
wanted leaflets showing the photos of the
three and identifying them as Alain Forbus
Lameru, 19, Yoan Torres Martinez, 21, and
Leandro Cerezo Sirut, 19, all from eastern
Camagüey province. The leaflets said
they were armed and dangerous.
A massive police operation has been under
way since Saturday and security at the airport
was fortified. Access to the airport on
Thursday was limited but passengers arriving
in Miami on a flight from Havana Thursday
afternoon said they had seen nothing of
the bloody events.
Media reports from Havana said the two
conscripts had tried to hijack a Boeing
737 operated by the Spanish Hola Airline.
The conscripts deserted from the Managua
military base, some 15 miles southeast of
the airport, which houses an elite armored
unit and serves as a training facility.
The shooting follows another violent incident
involving conscripts on Dec. 20 at the El
Manguito prison, just outside the eastern
city of Santiago de Cuba. Three conscripts
working as guards reportedly opened fire
on their superior officers and broke away
from their posts. They were captured later.
Despite the similarities, Cuba military
experts said they believed the two incidents
seemed isolated and did not indicate a growing
problem within the military, now estimated
to have between 50,000 and 60,000 full-time
personnel.
''This does not demonstrate or show a pattern
of discontent,'' said Frank Mora, a National
War College professor who studies the Cuban
military. "It does not demonstrate
a political problem or break in the military
institution.''
Conscripts are required by law to serve
at least two years in the military. ''Usually,
those who are doing this are not people
of certain means or political influence,''
Mora said.
Conscripts are involved in an array of
duties -- from agricultural work to security.
They earn a small monthly stipend though
are provided with housing and food. Mora
said there are no recent reports of abuse
or hazing against conscripts.
The Interior Ministry statement blamed
U.S. policies for encouraging Cubans to
migrate illegally to the United States.
''The responsibility for these new crimes
lies with the highest-ranking authorities
of the United States, adding to the long
list of terrorist acts that Cuba has been
the victim of for nearly half a century,''
it said.
Raúl Castro's reforms put on
hold
Fidel Castro was a no-show
at Tuesday's May Day parade, but he still
casts a long shadow over his brother
By Frances Robles. frobles@MiamiHerald.com.
Posted on Wed, May. 02, 2007.
Underlining the impression that hopes for
reforms in Cuba following Fidel Castro's
health crisis have now stalled amid reports
of his recovery, interim leader Raúl
Castro silently presided over a massive
May Day parade Tuesday.
The 80-year-old Fidel did not show up despite
widespread speculation that he would make
his first public appearance since undergoing
intestinal surgery almost exactly nine months
ago.
Instead there was only Raúl Castro,
who did not speak a word before the hundreds
of thousands of people gathered at Havana's
Plaza de la Revolución.
It was a dramatic shift from the long and
blustery Castro speeches that Cubans had
grown accustomed to -- Castro spoke for
three hours at last year's May Day celebration
-- and underscored the uncertainty facing
Cubans about who is really in charge.
''The longer Fidel is alive, the more it
impedes Raúl's consolidation of power,''
said Andy Gómez, a senior fellow
at the University of Miami's Institute of
Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. "When
you take a look at history, you see dictators
that have hung on. . . . It has always impacted
the new person coming into play.
"The longer Fidel remains alive, the
question inside the Cuban regime is going
to be: Is Raúl really calling the
shots or is Fidel?''
Fidel Castro did not show despite widespread
speculation that he would make his first
public appearance since shortly before July
31 -- when the government announced that
intestinal bleeding required him to temporarily
turn power over to his brother, who is seen
as more pragmatic and open to economic reforms.
REFORMS HALTED
But in recent weeks Fidel Castro's health
has appeared to improve, and some experts
believe that he has now put the brakes on
any reform-minded projects.
In the first months of Castro's sickness,
there was much talk about the systemic failures
of the revolutionary system -- failures
that Castro had long blamed on Washington
or corrupt Cubans. That clamor now has dropped
to a whisper. Unprecedented investigative
journalism reports published in the Cuban
state media for several months have stopped.
The papers are back to running blistering
anti-U.S. rhetoric.
And an academic commission formed to study
problems with the system of socialist property
-- the government owns just about everything
-- recently announced it would issue a report
in three years.
''Months ago they were admitting systemic
problems, saying this system is not working
the way it should. They are not saying that
anymore,'' said Brian Latell, a former top
CIA Cuba analyst. ''Is this Fidel's show,
or is there a hard-liner Fidelista group
persuading Raúl to slow all that?''
Latell said it's unclear whether Fidel is
recovering and putting a stop to his brother's
projects, or hard-liners are exerting more
influence on Raúl.
''It may be a combination of a fear in
the current leadership of repudiating policies
long cherished by Fidel while he is still
alive and aware,'' he said.
Elizardo Sánchez, who heads the
illegal but tolerated Commission on Human
Rights and National Reconciliation, had
another theory: "The idea that [Fidel
Castro] . . . is opposed to reform can serve
as a cover story for his brother and others
to justify inaction, immobilization and
paralysis.
"While the comandante is in charge
and can see and hear what is around him,
nothing is going to happen.''
Sánchez said he believes the majority
of the mid and lower-level bureaucrats are
eager for reform, but they have always been
stymied by Fidel and a close circle of followers.
RAUL'S TENURE
To be sure, Raúl's nine months on
the job have not been without power. But
while many Cuba-watchers expected him to
embrace economic reforms, he has instead
cracked down on illegal businesses and off-the-books
work. A law that went into effect last month
requires people to show up to their jobs
on time -- and work.
''I would say Fidel has not stopped any
reforms, because there have been no reforms,''
Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, a former Cuban
exile who returned to Cuba to fight the
government from the inside, said by phone
from Havana.
"If he could act without the guidance
of Fidel, Raúl could perhaps offer
some light reforms. It's not that Raúl
is interested in reforms. It's that Cuba
requires change. I don't perceive reforms
of any kind. On the contrary, he is demanding
more of the worker.''
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