Word: castroã
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When the then-recently triumphant Castro, a graduate of the University of Havana, came to Harvard in April of 1959, he addressed an enraptured audience, explaining his early desire to study here. Now, Castro??s alma mater will welcome Harvard students.A lucky group of Harvard students will be able to escape the interminable New England winter for the tropical breezes and raucous tunes of Cuba, a country steeped in history, culture, and geopolitical significance. Earlier this week, Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) announced that it had been granted a license...
...World Baseball Classic—on March 13, 2006, hidden in a thicket of good feelings and mostly good baseball—Fidel Castro??s Cuba reared its ugly head...
...Fidel Castro??s revolutionary goals included literacy in academia and art, and the many art schools have turned it into one of the most artistically “overeducated, undermanifested” populations, Kennedy explains. She continued that these art schools offer classical training which becomes the vocabulary for political dissent...
...over 20 minutes during his hour-long visit about his involvement in political causes, from his construction of shelters in rural Ecuador, to his work with missionaries, to his music school for women in India. Sanz noted that he “dedicates part of his set against Fidel Castro?? and urged students and his fans motivated by politics to “write about what’s important to them...
Cuba’s jailed dissidents need more of those sparks. All too often their cause is ignored by Western journalists and academics. The task of educating people about Castro??s gulag normally falls to Cuban-American activists and organizations, whose efforts are as indefatigable as they are invaluable...