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Now considered a moderate Cuban-American, Aruca conspired against the
revolutionary government in Cuba in the late 1950s, and was sentenced to jail
for working with the underground. After escaping, he came to the U.S. and
studied economics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and did
graduate work at Catholic University.
In 1979, he founded Marazul Tours, a travel agency headquartered in New
York that provides service to Cuba. He is president of Marazul Tours, and also
is a radio commentator on Miami's Radio Progreso. |
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He is a senior research associate at the University of Miami's North-South
Center. Castro is also a regular columnist for The Miami Herald, El
Nuevo Herald (Miami), and La Opinión (Los Angeles). |
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He is the president of the Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP, is the senior
pastor of the New Birth Baptist Church, a predominantly African-American
church. Curry is also the general manager of WMBM 1490AM, a radio station in
Miami. |
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He is the former president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association and says
he was thrown out of the association because its members considered him a
díaloguero, someone who wants to establish a dialogue with the
Cuban government.
Duran is now a board member of the Cuban Committee for Democracy, an
organization founded in 1993 by the moderate Cuban-American community in the
U.S. |
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Elena Freyre is the executive director of the Cuban Committee for
Democracy, which was founded in 1993 by the moderate Cuban-American community.
Freyre was born in Cuba and came to the United States in 1960 when she was 12
years old. She returned to Cuba for the first time in 1998, during Pope John
Paul II's visit. |
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He is a professor of international relations at Florida International
University. His research work has focused on Cuban politics and international
relations of Latin America. |
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Originally from Puerto Rico, Ferre is a former mayor of Miami. |
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He is the executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation
(CANF), the strongest Cuban-American lobby and the driving force behind the
embargo and isolationist policy toward Cuba. |
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She is the head of Mothers and Women Against Repression in Cuba, which
opposed sending Elian back to Cuba. Members of her group conducted daily prayer
vigils near the house of Elian's relatives in Little Havana; some were present
when federal agents took Elian in the pre-dawn raid. |
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A professor at Florida International University, where he founded the Cuban
Research Institute, he was born in Cuba and came to the United States with his
parents in 1960 when he was 11 years old. He belongs to the "1.5 generation" of
Cubans who arrived in the United States as children or adolescents. |
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Carlos Saladrigas is a prominent Cuban-American businessman who tried to
negotiate a resolution to the impasse between the U.S. government and Elian's
family in Little Havana. Saladrigas is also one of the children who came to
America in "Operation Pedro Pan." |
