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Gorbachev
coming to Miami summit on Cuba
Tampa
Bay Business Journal,
FL. August 13, 2003.
The National Summit on Cuba announced that former
Soviet leader President Mikhail Gorbachev is coming
to Miami to discuss historic perspectives on U.S.
policy toward the island at the upcoming Florida
National Summit on Cuba Oct. 4 at the Biltmore
Hotel in Coral Gables.
The U.S. State Department announced that it
is reviewing all aspects of U.S. policy toward
Cuba, a policy that for the past 43 years has
been based on a unilateral economic and diplomatic
embargo.
The review comes as tension grows between the
U.S. and Cuban governments and between the Bush
administration and hard-line supporters of the
status quo within the Cuban-American community
who recently denounced President George W. Bush's
return of 12 hijackers to Cuba, a release stated.
Gorbachev will join a host of Cuban-American
and elected leaders from the state of Florida,
former American government officials, current
members of Congress, heads of the two major international
human rights organizations and international representatives
to discuss how changing dynamics affect now and
future U.S. policy toward Cuba.
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