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...Ral A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. He is president of the Harvard College Latino Men’s Collective. Miguel Garcia ’12 lives in Greenough Hall. He is an intern for the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Eliana C. Murillo ’10 is a sociology concentrator in Winthrop House. She is president of Latinas Unidas de Harvard...
...Ral A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. He is president of the Harvard College Latino Men’s Collective. Jarell L. Lee ’10, a joint sociology and African and African-American studies concentrator, lives in Lowell House. He is executive director of the Boston Black Student Network (BBSN...
...revolution in Cuba is, at this point, obvious. A dictatorship subservient to the U.S. was replaced by one momentarily subservient to the Soviet Union, and consistently subservient to itself. In a move reminiscent of monarchical succession, Fidel Castro gave up power to none other than his brother Ral two years ago. Despite the deleterious effects of the economic blockade on the island in place since John F. Kennedy’s administration, the regime’s economic decisions have not created tangible benefits beyond healthcare and literacy. Poverty remains widespread, education limited, and free speech censored; barges still...
...official celebration in Havana on January 1, Ral Castro warned that, “outside forces cannot destroy the Cuban Revolution.” In a way, he is right: Aggressive but ineffective moves by the U.S. and its allies in the last 50 years, including the blockade, assassination attempts against Castro, and the Bay of Pigs, have only strengthened the autocratic regime. But Castro neglected to mention that there is nothing left to be destroyed but false memories. The Cuban Revolution was destroyed long ago by men like Fidel and Ral Castro, men who took...
...Diadji Douifi and his colleagues, then we must move away from supracultural abstraction and blunt application of the language of individual rights, and toward an intercultural, intracultural, and ultimately more democratic pragmatism, toward the creative anchoring of human rights in multiple ways of being in the world.Ral A. Carrillo ’10 is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears regularly...