#JORGE MAS CANOSA FREE#

After newspaper sales boxes were vandalized and Mas hired city buses to carry signs that read Yo no creo el Herald _ 'I don't believe the Herald' _ the two sides eventually reached an uneasy peace.Д«ut it was Mas' hard line on Cuba that drew the strongest reaction.

In 1992, Mas declared a boycott of Miami's largest newspaper, the Miami Herald, largely because it did not support an anti-Castro measure. He libeled his older brother and in 1990 was forced to pay him more than $1 million. In 1984, he challenged Joe Carollo, then a Miami city commissioner, to a duel. My friends, my social activities are all Cuban.'ДЄlthough Mas' clout and a zealous personal style earned respect from Miami to Moscow and Managua, he could also be abrasive. I live here only as an extension of Cuba. 'I have never assimilated,' he told the Los Angeles Times in 1992. He was cubano hasta las raices _ 'Cuban to the roots.' Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Czech President Vaclav Havel and Portuguese leader Mario Soares treated him like an exiled potentate.

presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton, answered his phone calls.

#JORGE MAS CANOSA FREE#

'We are certain that at this very moment Jorge is lobbying with God for a free Cuba,' said Francisco 'Pepe' Hernandez, president of the Cuban American National Foundation at the Sunday news conference at the foundation's headquarters. policymakers to draw ever tighter a trade embargo that has hobbled the Cuban economy. By raising huge campaign contributions and focusing his rhetoric like a laser on one issue _ liberation of the island from Castro _ Mas coaxed U.S. His family fortune has been estimated at more than $500 million.Д«ut Mas' passion was politics.

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