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Then came a Cuban flag, bold and bright, for a moment reminding me that once, when Castro was still in the hills, he looked like a hero to many of us. Then I remembered "'Al paredon [To the Wall]!" and the betrayals that came before the sugar cane. But the kids could not remember-these wispy-bearded caricatures of the sainted...
...Cane in One Hand, Weapon in the Other
...During his first season as coach his back continued to bother him, and he trained his team with a cane in one hand and a weapon in the other. "I think that first season actually helped my back, although I use to hobble home in pain and just fall into my bed." he said...
...effects of this study are reflected in work. The youth are mechanizing the jobs of their parents out of existence. In five or ten years there will be no cane-cutters, only machine operators and technicians...
...they do in the U.S. As long as there is manual labor in agriculture, it will be shared by students, technicians, planners, everyone. Lazara has worked in ten harvests, Hugo in eight. Pedro in five. Alberto thinks the volunteer work he did plating eucalyptus trees was even harder than cane-cutting. "It wasn't planting the trees that was so hard-it was digging the holes...