Word: cuba
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Cruz, 43, spent his first nine years in Cuba as one of three children of anti-Castro parents who lived a "dual reality." He says, "We were pretending we were communists, but we were against the system." His father, who sold milk containers, bought meat on the black market for the family dinner table, and Nilo's mother got a doctor friend to say the boy had hepatitis, which allowed him to be sent home from school at lunch so she could feed him better. A childhood filled with faux illnesses "meant I couldn't play and run around...
...family fled Cuba in 1970 for Miami, where Cruz spent more time indoors--shelving books at the library and discovering the poetry of Emily Dickinson, along with the work of Latin-American masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He acknowledges feeling a responsibility to give theatrical voice to the Latin-American experience in a country where such voices are not often widely heard. But he hopes that plays like Anna in the Tropics will speak to a broader audience. "It deals with large issues, lost traditions, the importance of art--and it's a classic love story...
...want to congratulate and thank Duncan M. Currie ’04 for writing his Oct. 8 column, “The Conscience of Cuba...
...situation these noble people suffer, and I honor his compassion for writing an article which brings the plight of peace-loving people like Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva and Marta Beatriz Roque to the attention of your readership. His article brings inspiration to Cuban political prisoners and the people of Cuba in general...
...look at the history of Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Russia. New democratic governments have failed more than they have succeeded. Japan and Germany were exceptions, not the rule. We must pour in all of the time and resources needed to ensure that Iraq succeeds. We cannot create another Cuba. Alonzo Wilkins Troy, Ohio...