Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hidden in his bag was precious cargo: the manuscript of his second novel, Heroes Are Grazing in My Garden, which was published in English last year (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95). It is not an angry indictment of Cuba today but something more powerful: a sad but engrossing tale of the spiritual squalor that has settled over the island. Padilla's memoirs, Self-Portrait of Other -- the other being the man he left behind in Havana -- is scheduled to be published next year...
Communism has not taken hold in Cuba, he believes, and when Castro dies the island will move away from its alien ideology. At that moment, Padilla predicts, thousands of exiles will return home and start new businesses with the money they have made in the U.S. But they will not forsake their new home in Florida: they will shuttle between the two countries as easily as if they were going from New York to Washington. Cuba will become half American, and the great irony, Padilla concludes, is that Castro, who tried to expunge the American image from the island, will...
Union City, N.J., is 1,300 miles from Cuba. But refugees from Fidel Castro's island so dominate the community that a service organization posts the days when the "Cuban Lions" meet. A children's shop does a brisk business in mosquiteros, lace mosquito nets for cribs that are a necessity in Cuba but only a nostalgic and expensive decoration in Union City...
...census counted fewer than 4 million residents on the U.S. mainland who would today fall under the category Hispanic, the majority of Mexican descent. Last year there were an estimated 17.6 million, with roughly 60% tracing their ancestry to Mexico and the rest to Puerto Rico, Cuba, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela and about two dozen other countries of Central and South America. Fully two-thirds were immigrants, according to a study by Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc., a New York market-research and polling firm, that was commissioned by the SIN Television Network, a national grouping of Spanish...
When they meet in the U.S., Hispanics feel as much rivalry as camaraderie. Many of the first Cubans who fled from Castro were middle class or even wealthy. Other Hispanics call them "the hads" (los tenia) because so many of their sentences supposedly begin "In Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...