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69 Alejandro Álvaro Bremer, “El Embargo a Cuba: Un nudo gordiano,” Journal of Latin American Affairs (Miami), 4(1), (Spring/Summer, 1996), 5.
70 Walter Haubrich, “Glaubt Fidel Castro an Gott? Seltsame Dinge geschehen dieser Tage im atheistischen Kuba,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 17, 1998.
71 Volker Skierka, “Die Versöhnung der heiligen Väter,” Die Zeit, January 22, 1998.
72 Betto, pp. 139ff.
73 Ibid., p. 141.
74 Ibid., p. 271.
75 Ibid., pp. 271ff.
76 Ibid., pp. 124ff.
77 Ibid., p. 141.
78 Ibid., p. 123.
79 Ibid., p. 136.
80 Ibid., p. 140.
81 Ibid., pp. 137ff.
82 Ibid., p. 196.
83 Ibid., p. 169.
84 Ibid., p. 186.
85 Ibid., 181ff.
86 Margaret E. Crahan, “Fidel Castro, the Catholic Church and Revolution in Cuba,” in Dermat Keogh, Church and Politics in Latin America, p. 268.
87 Ibid., p. 253.
88 Ibid., p. 259.
89 Betto, pp. 206ff.
90 Furiati, ZR Rifle, pp. 37, 43.
91 Crahan, “Fidel Castro, the Catholic Church and Revolution in Cuba,” p. 268.
92 Ibid.
93 Ibid.
94 Betto, p. 194.
95 “Sufrida Iglesia aguarda al Papa,” El Nuevo Herald, December 21, 1997.
96 Ibid.
97 Betto, pp. 210ff.
98 Ibid., p. 33.
99 Crahan, “Fidel Castro, the Catholic Church and Revolution in Cuba,” p. 263.
100 Betto, p. 214.
101 Ibid.
102 Liss, Fidel!, p. 171.
103 “Fragmentos de documentos por los obispos cubanos durante las últimas cuatro décadas, en relación con la situación nacional,” El Nuevo Herald (Miami), December 21, 1997.
104 Betto, pp. 265ff.
105 Obispos Católicos de Cuba, Démonos fraternalmente la paz, http://www.nacub.org., Havana, November 1, 1997.
106 Elaine De Valle, “Cubanos tuvieron Nochebuena,” El Nuevo Herald, December 26, 1997.
107 “Visita papal será éxito,” El Nuevo Herald (Miami), December 17, 1997.
108 “Mensaje del Papa Juan Pablo II al pueblo cubano ante la proximidad de su visita y con ocasión de la fiesta de Navidas,” http://www.nacub.org., Vatican City, December 20, 1997.
109 Volker Skierka, “Die Versöhnung der heiligen Väter,” Die Zeit, January 22, 1998.
110 “Discurso en la Ceremonía de Llegada al Aeropuerto Internacional José Martí,” in http://www.nacub.org., La iglesia católica de Cuba/Visita Santo Padre/Discursos y Homilías de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II, Havana, January 21, 1998.
111 “Homilía pronunciada en la Celebración Eucarística en la Arquidiócesis de La Habana,” in http://www.nacub.org., La iglesia católica de Cuba/Visita Santo Padre/Discursos y Homilías de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II, Havana, January 25, 1998; quoted in English from Reynaldo González, “A Pope in the Land of the Orishas,” www.cubaupdate.org/art12.
112 “Homilía pronunciada en la Celebración Eucarística en la Arquidiócesis de La Habana,” in http://www.nacub.org., La iglesia católica de Cuba/Visita Santo Padre/Discursos y Homilías de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II, Havana, January 25, 1998.
113 “Palabras en la Ceremonía de despedida,” in http://www.nacub.org., La iglesia católica de Cuba/Visita Santo Padre/Discursos y Homilías de Su Santidad Juan Pablo II, Havana, January 25, 1998.
114 Volker Skierka, “Die Versöhnung der heilgen Väter,” Die Zeit, January 22, 1998.
115 Amnesty International Report 1999, http://www.amnesty.org.
116 Amnesty International, ai-Journal, May 1998, http://www.amnesty.de.
117 “Kuba zwischen Reformieren und Verharren,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 23, 1998.
118 “One Small Chink in Cuba’s Prison Doors,” The Economist, February 21, 1998.
119 Amnesty International Report 1999, http://www.amnesty.org.
120 Jorge I. Domínguez, “Comienza una transición hacia el autoritarismo en Cuba?,” encuentro 6/7 (Madrid, 1997), 12.
121 Karen DeYoung, “For Dissidents in Cuba, a Lonely Crusade,” International Herald Tribune, July 18, 2000.
122 Leo Wieland, “Zaghafte Annäherungsversuche zwischen verhärteten Fronten: Castro und die Exilkubaner,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 8, 1995.
123 “Exile Leader Asks U.S. to Sever Ties with ‘Anti-Castro Industry,’” Miami Herald, November 11, 1997.
124 Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo, “Alter Feind, neue Hoffnung,” Die Zeit, July 7, 1995.
125 Susanne Gratius, “‘Fin de siglo’ in Havanna – Kuba und das 9. Iberoamerikanische Gipfeltreffen,” Brennpunkt Lateinamerika, 22 (Hamburg, 1999), 24.
126 Wolf Grabendorff, “Algunas transiciones hacia la democracia en América Latina: elementos comparativos y tímidas lecciones,” encuentro 6/7 (Madrid, 1997), 63.
127 “Kuba zwischen Reformieren und Verharren,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 23, 1998.
128 Jorge I. Domínguez, “Comienza una transición hacia el autoritarismo en Cuba?,” encuentro 6/7 (Madrid, 1997), 12.
129 Walter Haubrich, “Am Sozialismus wird nicht gerührt,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 4, 1996.
130 IRELA Dossier, 68 (see ch. 9, n. 14), 13.
131 Ibid., pp. 13ff.
132 Lola Galán, “El Papa reprende duramente a Castro por la falta de libertades,” El País, December 3, 1999.
133 Borge, Face to Face with Fidel Castro, p. 129.
134 Ibid., pp. 130ff.
135 Ibid., pp. 133ff.
136 Ibid., pp. 64ff.
137 Ibid., pp. 65ff.
138 Ibid., p. 69.
139 Liss, Fidel!, p. 131.
140 Amnesty International Report 2000, http://www.amnesty.org.
141 Alfred Herzka, “Cuba’s Prisons and Their Prisoners,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ Online English Window), October 11, 1999.
142 Juan Carlos I at the ninth Ibero–American Summit, author’s tape-recording, Havana, November 15–16, 1999.
143 Walter Haubrich, “Don Quijote der Geschichte,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 29, 2000.
Chapter 10 Don Quixote and History
1 Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 8.
2 Márquez, “A Personal Portrait of Fidel,” in Fidel Castro, My Early Years, p. 21.
3 John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, p. 132.
4 See Peter Kornbluh (ed.), Kennedy and Castro: The Secret Quest for Accommodation, George Washington University/National Security Archive (NSA), Electronic Briefing Book No. 17, Washington, August 16, 1999, Digital National Security Archive: The Cuban Missile Crisis, http://38.202.78.21/introx.htm.
5 Márquez, “A Personal Portrait of Fidel,” in Fidel Castro, My Early Years, p. 22.
6 “Conversation with Federico Mayor Zaragoza,” p. 22 (see ch. 8, n. 92 above).
7 Szulc, Fidel, p. 149.
8 Pérez Jr, Between Reform and Revolution, p. 381.
9 Eric Williams, From Columbus to Castro: The History of the Caribbean 1492–1969, London, 1970, p. 486.
10 El Mercurio (Santiago de Chile), October 26, 1998.
11 Borge, Face to Face with Fidel Castro, pp. 170ff.
12 “Conversation with Federico Mayor Zaragoza,” p. 22 (see ch. 8, n. 92 above).
13 Ibid.
14 Carlos Lage in conversation with the author, Die Zeit, July 22, 1999.
15 “Conversation with Federico Mayor Zaragoza,” p. 4 (see ch. 8, n. 92 above).
16 Susanne Gratius, “Kuba 1999: Zwischen Repression und Agonie,” Brennpunkt Lateinamerikas 10 (May 28, 1999), 77.
17 Ibid., pp. 77ff.
18 Domínguez, “Comienza una transición hacia el autoritarismo en Cuba?,” encuentro, 6–7 (Madrid, 1997), 7ff.
19 Irving Louis Horowitz, “Castro and the End of Ideology,” North–South (
Miami), December 1993/January 1994, p. 8.
20 Geyer, Guerrilla Prince, pp. 77ff.
21 Borge, Face to Face with Fidel Castro, p. 178.
22 García Márquez, The General in His Labyrinth, p. 257.
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b) Articles
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