> The "banana republic" label is laden with anti-Latin American
connotations.
> It also doesn't fit. Family members of Jorge Mas Santos, head of the
Cuban
> American Foundation (CANF) -- which bankrolled the fight to keep
Elián in
> Miami -- own controlling interests in telecommunications companies
worth
> billions of dollars and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. CANF
leaders
> are sophisticated about the workings of American capitalism and
politics.
> That sophistication and clout, not bananas, is the secret of their
success in
> plugging into the American political system and turning it to their
own
> devices.
This description shows that the 'banana republic' label IS very apt.
If you look at most countries in Latin America, you have a well-to-do
elite calling the shots (figuratively and literally).
The above description sounds very much like Cuba under Batista....a
rich ruling elite with investments listed on the NYSE...
> In the Elián case, the hard-liners overreached so badly and looked so
bad in
> the eyes of the U.S. public they gave their adversaries -- the U.S.
farm
> lobby, Cuban American moderates and other embargo opponents -- the
enhanced
> political clout needed to finally make a breakthrough.
And probably explains why the whole thing was orchestrated from the
get-go...
June
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