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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Madeline Baro Diaz
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ When a federal appeals court ruled recently that ardent anti-Castro sentiment in Miami-Dade County prevented five accused Cuban spies from receiving a fair trial, leading Cuban-Americans expressed outrage. But many outside of the Cuban-American community nodded their heads in agreement.
"(The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up," said David Abraham, professor of immigration and citizenship law at the University of Miami School of Law. "As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line."
Such perceptions are drawn from decades of tumultuous events in Miami-Dade. From bombings and assassinations militant Cuban exiles carried...
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