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This series of networking opportunities began when over 45 students filled Sever 102 to hear the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba, the former Finnish ambassador to Israel and Cyprus and a veteran of the French diplomatic corps—all Weatherhead Center fellows—discuss their experiences...
...some instances, such as when a citizen is imprisoned, ambassadors often get a taste of the “seamier side of life,” according to Michael Small, the former Canadian ambassador to Cuba...
Chomsky’s most recent blunder came on his Oct. 28 lecture in Cuba. With Cuban President Fidel Castro in the audience, Chomsky argued that, after the failed effort in Iraq, Bush and his cronies would have to “manufacture” another enemy in order to be re-elected...
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...