Word: cuba
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Despite the speakers’ call to visit Cuba, the conference’s delegates did not vote to endorse a resolution calling for the exiled community to return to the island. The majority of delegates felt the conference had convened to bring awareness to the issue and not to take a policy stance...
Helen Jimenez, a second-year law student at American University, said she was pleased with the speakers’ call to return to Cuba...
...going back, we can arm ourselves with the facts, we can show the rest of the world the conditions in Cuba and that’s what Castro fears most,” she said...
...when asked whether or not she would visit Cuba, Jimenez, who said her father was tortured by the Castro regime following the Bay of Pigs in 1961, said she was uncertain...
...Cristina M. Mendoza, a first-year graduate student at Tufts University, said she was disillusioned by her visit to Cuba. She said her access to native Cubans was limited and that she was shocked by the way the island’s residents were treated by the government in tourist destinations...