Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this thriller about Cuba at the time of the 1962 missile crisis, Buckley, the archetypal conservative, presents a Che Guevara who turns out to be a humane and tragic figure; even Fidel Castro, between bouts of egomania, is a | fully developed antagonist. The least satisfactory character, curiously, is Blackford Oakes, a CIA soloist whose IQ seems to be only a couple of digits higher than James Bond...
...only is age in his favor, but Law's familiarity with Latin America both inside and outside the Church makes him a valuable asset. Fluent in Sp0anish, the Archbishop was one of five key American clergymen to tour Cuba last week. There he participated in a three hour long discussion with Fidel Castro, led the3 largest Catholic mass in that country's 25-year Marxist regime, and asked that nation's leaders to consider releasing almost 100 political prisoners...
...thing, thirty years ago the revolution in Cuba hadn't happened, the revolution in Nicaragua hadn't happened and the insurgency in EI Salvador hadn't gotten to the point it has now. Some of the same inequities still exist, but the historical context is very different. The opposition in Guatemala today are opposing the military on a whole different level. If and when they're ever victorious, it will be a far more profound change than they saw with the election of Aravenz [the first democratically elected president of Guatemala, deposed by a CIA coup...
...Rivera soon moved to New York, where his mother and sister, who had left Cuba in the '60s, waited. Columbia Records also waited, and signed D'Rivera to a contract. Since then, D'Rivera has made two studio albums and a live album, playing with American jazz musicians he had heard in Cuba as well as two musicians, drummer Ignacio Berroa and conguero Daniel Ponce, who had defected to the United States in a mass exodus to Florida some years earlier and had played with Paquito in Cuba...
Paquito brings ideas from gospel, funk (el funketeo in Paquito's (Cubanglish) Brazil, Cuba and the Dominican Republic into the album, while Tanenbaum a laidback, scholarly-appearing man whom D'Rivera ails a "Vallum", flavors the album with the exotic "Waltz for Sonny", which is based on guitar figures common to the Venezuelan joropo...