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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: donjuan_demarco who wrote (8425)	7/12/2000 5:34:32 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Wouldn't work, Fidel quit the puros years ago -g- ... anyway, all that would do would be to put Raulito in power ... which would open up a window of some opportunity, all right. If they were my parents i would suggest to them that they go back, not worry too much about the few nickels that might temporarily aid the regime, because by calmly living the relative liberty they enjoy as US citizens they would set an example that would cost the communists much more ... even better, finance a dozen youth to go ... great life experience for them, it's the last communist state they're likely to have the opportunity to visit ... and no time like the present, one day soon it will collapse of its own weight. Remember Berlin - one day people realised that the soldiers wouldn't shoot, and that the Stasi was all off burning records and trying to blend in with the populace, so they took down the wall by hand ... and with a beer in the other hand, in many cases ... Cuba could be like that.

To: donjuan_demarco who wrote (8425)	7/13/2000 6:14:05 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 9127

About that Moroccan Boy, What's-his-name.... IMMIGRATION-SPAIN: Not Even 1,000 Deaths Have Stemmed the Flow By Tito Drago MADRID, Aug 11 [1998] (IPS) - The flow of would-be immigrants has not let up even though 1,000 undocumented Africans - five a day - have drowned in the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco so far this year, according to Spain's leading immigrant advocacy group. oneworld.org Excerpt: The European Union has set restrictions on the entry of immigrants from non-EU countries. Spain has set an annual quota of 25,000 work and residency permits, which are not always issued due to administrative omission and delays that drag out the procedure up to eight months. ATIME calculates that so far this year 1,000 people have died in their attempts to enter Europe through the Strait of Gibraltar, which joins the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean sea. The Spanish government, which registers only the deaths that take place in national waters, has counted 200. But ATIME estimates that another 800 have drowned in Moroccan waters. The total leaves an average of five a day, mainly 16 to 30-year-olds. The immigrant advocacy group calculates that 17,000 survivors have been captured and deported to Morocco by the Spanish police this year, and that 20,000 found refuge and work in Spain or other European nations. [...]