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Cuban government slowly but surely repairing Michelle's havoc.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
CARDENAS, Cuba _ Six months after the worst storm to hit Cuba in 50 years, the island nation is rebounding with an aggressive government-led rebuilding program that included the first food purchases from the United States since the trade embargo of 1961.
Hurricane Michelle raked the island's midsection with 135-mph winds last November, causing more than $1 billion in property damage and forcing the evacuation of 750,000 people, including the country's second-most-famous resident, Elian Gonzalez.
Early warnings and a speedy, compulsory evacuation kept the death toll to five. By comparison, Hurricane Mitch, which caught Honduras and its neighbors by surprise in 1998, killed 5,000 to 6,000 people. The rebuilding continues in those countries.
In Cuba, the hardest-hit areas have been rebuilt and the "open" sign hangs on once-damaged ...
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Q: Is sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba the wrong thing to do? Yes: A...dominated the debate about the fate of Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy rescued...want to be reunited with his son in Cuba. This would be rightfully so...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 1, 2003 700+ words
...held sway over policy toward Cuba, Bardach reveals the underlying...dynamic of US foreign policy. Cuba and the US have a relationship...the saga of a little boy. "Cuba Confidential" takes the reader on the perilous voyage made by Elian Gonzalez across the sea and into the...
- US DEPT OF STATE: Cuba -- Elian Gonzalez/US interests section.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire December 8, 1999 700+ words
...M2 PRESSWIRE-8 December 1999-US DEPT OF STATE: Cuba - - Elian Gonzalez/US interests section (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...ultimatum or deadline imposed by the Government of Cuba for resolution of this case. We would hold the Cuban...
