Annotations for People: Castro-fidel 1926-2015

Are we affirming Mexico as a dictatorship? That it's a dictatorship and it's the longest lasting dictatorship in this hemisphere, probably...

With increasing frequency opponents of the North American Free trade Agreement from labor to Ross Perot are attacking Mexico and the Mexican government. In Washington, Florida Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart joined other Cuban American representatives at a Capitol Hill press conference.

I don't see any change in the Mexican political system that leads me to believe that it's anything but the rotating dictatorship that it has been since the beginning of the pre-reign.

The Cuban American Congress members are concerned about what they feel is too cozy a relationship between the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari and that of Fidel Castro. Since Premier Castro legalized the dollar and liberalized travel to Cuba in July, there have been indications some members of the Clinton administration favor negotiations with Cuba and that talks may actually have taken place, something the Cuban American delegation strongly opposes. Miami Congresswoman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen.

We have asked repeatedly for specifics on these negotiations. Where have they taken place? Who has participated in them? Have any agreements been signed? We get back generalities about, well, it's an ongoing set of negotiations which have been taking place through various administrations and we demand specific...

This is news from Latino USA. I'm Maria Martin. A group of influential Cuban Americans is calling for a major shift in US policy towards Cuba, including lifting of the 30-year-old economic embargo.

We feel that to isolate Cuba is to help the Castro government. We feel that the moment that there is an openness that we Cubans can travel to United States, Cubans there can travel here. When that is open, I think that is going to produce a change and that's what we are looking for, some type of change.

New York businessman, Marcelino Miyares, heads up the new Cuban Committee for Democracy. Miyares, who fought in the Bay of Pigs and was a POW in Cuba, says he and many other Cuban-Americans no longer believe in a confrontational or interventionist US policy towards the island.

And we believe that there is a large number of Cuban, as a matter of fact, close to 50%, who has a moderate progressive perception of the reality, who really will like to see the Cuban problem solved by peaceful means, not by means of confrontation.

The new group has enlisted the help of former Costa Rican president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias, in an effort to establish a new US relationship with Cuba.