![]() ![]() (The building is technically part of the Swiss Embassy.) Six years ago, during the custody battle over Elián González, the five-year-old boy who was rescued after his mother and others drowned while trying to reach Florida in a motorboat, Castro ordered the construction of a permanent protest forum on a traffic island in front of the Interests Section. In the absence of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, the Interests Section serves as the de-facto embassy. Interests Section, a sleek seven-story building on a curving stretch of Havana’s seaside promenade, the Malecón. The rally was held, as are most such events in Havana these days, outside the U.S. Cuba won, 11–2, but the following day, in a tone of high umbrage, Cuba’s official Communist Party newspaper, Granma, decried the “cynical counter-revolutionary provocations” of U.S. ![]() He was released after receiving a lecture about freedom of speech. ![]() A Cuban official angrily confronted the protester, whereupon Puerto Rican policemen detained him. Among them was Antonio Castro, an orthopedic surgeon, who is the Cuban team’s doctor and one of Fidel Castro’s sons. During a game between Cuba and the Netherlands in the first international Baseball Classic, a spectator held up a sign to the television cameras which said “Abajo Fidel”-“Down with Fidel”-and shouted similar sentiments to the Cubans on the field. Late one Friday afternoon in March, a crowd gathered for a rally in downtown Havana to denounce an incident that had occurred the previous evening in San Juan, Puerto Rico. ![]()
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