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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Cuba: Cuban community remains split
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left three men with machine
guns living in our garage.”
Suarez said his father and
sisters, marked as counterrev-
olutionaries, were among the
many jailed before the failed
CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs
invasion in 1961. Later given
a 24-hour pass by the govern-
ment to attend to his wife after
a miscarriage, Suarez said,
his father instead boarded a
meatpacking boat and fled to
Miami.
Suarez and his siblings
followed shortly thereafter,
given passes on a ferry boat
to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, by
a friend of his mother’s in the
Brazilian Embassy.
“For me, it just seemed like
we were going on a vacation,”
Suarez said of his naivety at
the time.
His father got a teaching
position at Catholic Univer-
sity of America in Washington,
D.C. Suarez spent 35 years in
Florida before moving to the
West Coast. His older brother,
Xavier, became the first
Cuban-born mayor of Miami.
Castro, who died Fri-
day at 90, ceded power to
his younger brother, Raul, in
2006. In 2010, Suarez vis-
ited Cuba, stopping by what
he said locals still refer to as
the Dolores Sugar Mill, pre-
viously his family’s before the
revolution.
“The government took
over our two sugar mills,” he
said. “We also had a farm, and
they took our house away in
Havana.”
The sugar mill had been
dismantled, he said, but the
farm, owned by the govern-
ment, was still raising pigs
and cows on his last visit. He
said the manager has offered
to give the farm back to his
family, which has also sent
money to fix up a church and
playground around the former
sugar mill.
Germany’s reunification in
1990 was followed by millions
of claims by people who had
fled west of the Iron Curtain
and wanted their old property
back. Suarez said he hopes that
doesn’t happen in Cuba. “It’s
not really fair to go back and
try to reclaim it from the peo-
ple who live there,” he said.
In 2014, Suarez again vis-
ited Cuba, and said he could
see the country further open-
ing up. Along with Castro’s
departure from politics, he
also credited President Barack
Obama’s restoring diplomatic
relations, Cubans’ increased
access to the internet and Pope
Francis’ visit last year with
helping to lessen Cuba’s iso-
lation. But he said the Cuban
community remains split in the
aftermath of Castro’s death.
“I would say, in general,
our extended family is glad
that Fidel has finally died,” he
said. “But we also realize that
now we have to contend with
Raul. Our hope is that one day
— hopefully in our time — is
that Cuba will go back to being
a true democracy.”
Timber: Projected revenue down from last year
At least not yet, environ-
mental groups argue. Some,
like the Wild Salmon Center,
have filed motions in court to
dismiss the case, arguing that
the state must take into con-
sideration other factors beyond
timber sales and include val-
ues like the health of the for-
est, clean water, recreational
options and habitat.
Questions of forest manage-
ment — or mismanagement —
should not be dismissed lightly,
Moore agrees.
“You’ve got a unique asset
in the state forest that you can
never replace,” he said.
Former Cannon Beach
Mayor Mike Morgan wants the
Cannon Beach City Council to
encourage the county to opt out
of the lawsuit. He also plans to
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with resolutions against county
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Morgan’s draft resolution
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with the intent of permitting
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opportunity to “negotiate to
protect our resources.”
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percent of Clatsop County’s
total acreage is state or federal
forestland. Compared to other
counties listed in the lawsuit,
Clatsop County is a big piece
of pie, with thousands of acres
of timber worth millions of
dollars.
The county expects to
receive a projected $3.5 million
in general fund revenue from
state forest trust land timber
sales, according to this year’s
budget. This is down from last
year’s projections, but more
than what the county received
in recent years.
“I have serious concerns,”
said Board of Commissioners
Chairman Scott Lee about the
lawsuit. “Particularly the fact
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The Department of Human
Services has agreed to not
house children in its care for
more than two nights in a DHS
office prior to Dec. 31.
The agreement also says
that foster children will
be placed in hotels only in
“emergency circumstances”
where no “safe or appropri-
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Further, a foster child who
is housed temporarily in DHS
offices or hotels must continue
to attend the school or day care
in which he or she is enrolled,
according to the agreement.
Settlement talks continue
in the case, according to Youth
Rights and Justice, a Port-
land group that is providing
legal representation to the two
young plaintiffs.
The parties have agreed to
stay all action in the lawsuit
while confidential settlement
discussions continue.
The lawsuit was filed on
behalf of the two Multnomah
County children, who are rep-
resented by guardian ad litem
Richard Vangelisti.
The plaintiffs, in essence,
wanted the court to require the
state to stop housing kids in
hotels or offices.
Neither party is waiving
argument, but the interim set-
tlement agreement means
that the plaintiffs have agreed
that putting a child up in a
hotel temporarily, for the time
period in the agreement, is an
acceptable exception to what
they argue is a generally “non-
permissible” practice.
The Department of Human
Services has said that beds
for children in foster care are
increasingly scarce. Since this
summer, the department has
been under scrutiny both for
persistent safety problems and
for putting children up tem-
porarily in hotels and field
offices.
Some foster children have
also been held in juvenile
detention or in hospitals when
they no longer needed a high
level of medical care.
The state, under the agree-
ment, also must not seek to
place kids in detention centers
temporarily. At least one foster
child in Deschutes County has
been held in the local juvenile
detention facility.
The agency must not also
keep children in hospitals in
the absence of a medical pur-
pose, unless the child faces a
safety risk.
The state has also agreed to
that it is completely funded by
the timber industry.”
He hasn’t made up his mind
yet. The more he looks into the
lawsuit and the issues and top-
ics around it, and the more he
talks to people more knowl-
edgeable about state forestlands
than he is, the more options he
sees.
“I’m still finding out
options,” Lee said.
Whatever the board’s deci-
sion, the discussion of the
county’s concerns and options
will occur in an open, public
meeting, Lee promised.
While “the outcome (of the
lawsuit) certainly has the poten-
tial to change how the state
manages state forestland …
that’s really not part of the law-
suit,” Moore said.
provide the number of children
and other information about
children it houses temporarily
in emergency lodging to the
plaintiffs every week.
The lawsuit claimed that
the data the Department of
Human Services had released
about the number of chil-
dren in its care who had been
housed in hotels or offices
was incomplete.
The department, through a
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comment on the interim settle-
ment agreement Tuesday.
Child welfare issues will
likely continue to be the sub-
ject of discussion going into
the legislative session, which
is scheduled to get underway
in February.
In late August, a consulting
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of gaps when it comes to how
safety issues are reported and
addressed in the foster care
system.
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