In Miami, Graying Anti-Castro Movement Is Losing Steam

[Say_What]

"Miami is a subculture of the worst of White House politics," laments Bernardo Benes, a retired banker who became a target of exile wrath when he negotiated the 1978 release of more than 3,600 prisoners and exile visits to the island. "The political control is still in the hands of those who don't see any need to change it."

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MIAMI — At the height of the Cuban-American exile rallies after President Fidel Castro ceded power July 31, there were never more than a few hundred participants in the streets. Their noisy celebrations of Castro's latest illness showed a bitter face to the rest of the world.

But the embarrassed quiet that now prevails is perhaps a more accurate indicator of the mood among the city's largest ethnic minority.

The community's once-monolithic political voice that dictated a hard-line U.S. policy on Cuba for four decades has fractured along generational lines and weakened as a national force.

Militancy is out of fashion in this post-9/11 world, as evidenced not only by the recent sparsely attended demonstrations but by government cases against its last defiant practitioners.

It would have been unthinkable just a few years ago for immigration authorities to detain Luis Posada Carriles, a Bay of Pigs veteran, CIA operative and suspected bomber of a Cuban airliner.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-cubans11aug11,1,3551908.story?page=1&track=crosspromo&coll=la-news-politics-national

[stepnw1f]

1. Awww..... (nt)

[TommyO]

2. It's about time!

As Castro gets closer to death, so do those who oppose any political or economic relations with Cuba. Good riddance to both.

[pretzel4gore]

3. good riddance to both?

castro would have been a doctor had not the atrocity of batista and the theft of cuba from its people driven him to revolution when he was young...'judge not or you'll be judged by your own measure' as the bible thumpers try never to say....
had castro not led the revolution, where would cuba be today? ever been to el salvador? guatamala? bolivia? argentina? chile? brazil? children live in the street in too many countries, sniffing glue/gas to kill hunger pains....
why the hell should 'the people' have to have a 'revolution' to regain control of their own country anyway? who gave the country to the big fat grunting pigs? and where do you guys get the right to criticise revolutions that get hijacked by self servants who already hijacked the society? millions upon millions of people live in dignity today thanks to fidel castro. and millions will gain dignity from presidents chavez of venezuela, and morales of bolivia.....