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  • In Latin America, the Cult of Revolution Wanes

    05/18/2003 2:58:15 AM PDT · by Pharmboy · 4 replies · 312+ views
    NY Times Week in Review ^ | May 18, 2003 | LARRY ROHTER
    Reuters Still friends after all these years: Fidel Castro met in 2000 with the writer Gabriel García Márquez, who continues to support Cuba's aging caudillo. BUENOS AIRES — More than 100 Latin American intellectuals published a vigorous protest last month after Cuba sentenced 75 dissidents to long prison terms and executed three men who had hijacked a ferry and tried to flee to the United States. "We appeal to the conscience of the world to avoid a new trampling of the principles that guide" civilization, their manifesto read. But the group, which included the writers Gabriel García Márquez, Ariel Dorfman,...