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Cuban Smugglers
"The lucrative but dangerous business of smuggling Cubans into the United States is highly organized and growing fast. It is financed mostly by Cuban-American families in South Florida and involves smugglers and financiers in the Miami area, along with arrangers and transporters in Cuba and Mexico." Coast Guards in the United States, Havana, and Cuba are "frustrated by what they see as a national security threat as hundreds of boats a year come from Florida to pick up passengers illegally on the Cuban coast."
Tags: Cuba; illegal immigrants; smuggling; Mexico; Havana; Florida
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The Kingdom of Big Sugar
"After their father lost one of Cuba's great sugar fortunes to Castro's revolution, Alfy and Pepe Fanjul built a new empire in Florida, importing cheap Jamaican labor to do the brutal, dangerous work of sugarcane harvesting, and wielding ever more political power in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., In 1989, outraged by what he calls "modern-day slavery,"a crusading 37-year-old lawyer named Edward Tuddenham took them to court, spawning four ongoing class-action suits on behalf of 20,000 former workers. Marie Brenner investigates an epic legal war that pits the Fanjuls' American Dream against the nightmare of migrant labor."
Tags: labor; worker's rights; agriculture; migrant workers; immigrant labor; rural legal aid; cane cutters; political donations; contract; Havana; Gomez-Mena; H-2 workers; Bygrave v. Okeelanta; appeal
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Rum Warriors
The American Lawyer looks at the legal battle between French liquor producer Pernod Richard, S. A., and Bacardi & Company Limited over the rights to the Havana Club rum trademark.
Tags: WTO; Supreme Court; property rights trademarks Fidel Castro Florida Senator Connie Mack soft money donations brand name brands lobbying