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I have sent a letter asking for an interview at a high level and the answer was verbal that it depends on visas. I want to say that Foreign Relations sent me the visas and here I am. I assume it is as a result of the letter I sent. I don't guarantee that though, because I do not trust the logic of this system.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Dissident Campaigner\u003cbr/\u003eSpeakingly exclusively to Associated Press, he also spoke of his personal and political aspirations.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I want to live in this country with my family and I want to open Cambio Cubano offices here. Not offices to carry out destabilizing work, but offices that mark the beginning of a democratic process. In these offices we would have the right to meet, the right of free expression, of transition and of affiliation. And from this legal space we move forward step by step with the backing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I am also speaking of the necessary changes and openings that the country will have to undertake following the crisis that we all live in here and the differences that have been generated by having parallel economies.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Dissident  Campaigner\u003cbr/\u003eMenoyo has buried the hatred he once felt for the Cuban president, and he has done what many of Miami's exile leaders consider unthinkable: He has met with Castro. \u003cbr/\u003eHe has shaken his hand - four times in the past four years.\u003cbr/\u003eMenoyo insists he will keep pressing and speaking out for a less confrontational policy between the United States and Cuba. \u003cbr/\u003eHe moved to Miami shortly after the Revolution and became military leader for the newly formed anti-Castro group Alpha 66. \u003cbr/\u003eIn 1964, he landed in Cuba with three men in hopes of starting an insurrection. \u003cbr/\u003eBut government forces captured him, and the years in prison took their toll.\u003cbr/\u003eUnwilling to wear the uniform of a common prisoner, Gutierrez-Menoyo says he spent about 19 years in his underwear. \u003cbr/\u003eHis life started anew with his release in 1986. \u003cbr/\u003eHe returned to Florida.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"The need and the crisis which Cuba is living in and the discrimination which is fermenting in certain sectors which have access to dollars, and the area where dollars are widely used, means that sooner or later the government is going to have to make certain openings.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Dissident  Campaigner\u003cbr/\u003eShortly after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Havana on Jan. 1, 1959, Gutierrez-Menoyo arrived from the Escambray Mountains with his guerrilla fighters, who he says were never under Castro's orders.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 24-year-old commander rolled into the capital in a jeep five days before Castro and his top lieutenants. \u003cbr/\u003eGutierrez-Menoyo, who was born in Spain and moved to Havana as a boy, was granted Cuban citizenship for his role in the revolution.\u003cbr/\u003eBut as Castro's revolution began to take shape, Gutierrez-Menoyo decided he wanted no part of it.\u003cbr/\u003eForty years on, and Menoyo shows no signs of giving up in the struggle to promote democracy Cuba.\u003cbr/\u003eAs he waits in his hotel with his wife Gladys and their three young sons, he remains hopeful of a meeting with Castro, or at least some other high ranking officials, so that he can once again press home his view.\u003cbr/\u003eHavana City, Cuba / July 29, 1999\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide Ciudad de la Habana\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of Havana\u003cbr/\u003e3. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo walking in the gardens of the Hotel Neptuno \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Dissident\u003cbr/\u003e5 Cutaway \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, Dissident \u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of hands\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of Money Exchange\u003cbr/\u003e9. Hands counting dolars\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of bar\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of man leaving butchers\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo \u003cbr/\u003e13. Menoyo talking\u003cbr/\u003e14. 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