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...list of influential yummies includes Concepcion Campa, a 41-year-old biochemist who runs the Finlay Institute, where she helped develop a new meningitis vaccine. She serves on the Politburo along with Abel Prieto, 42, whose casual long hair belies his importance as head of the Cuban Writers and Artists Union. At the communist newspaper Juventud Rebelde, the 35-year-old director Jesus Martinez has tried to inject a livelier style for its young readers...
...same time, the dollar economy is giving rise to a privileged class increasingly independent of the government. Cuba's newest companies are state enterprises with quasi-private stockholders: foreign partners can repatriate their profits, but Cuban stockholders must plow any gain back into the company or it goes to the state. Harvard University professor and Cuba expert Jorge Dominguez notes, however, that it is just a short step to total privatization. Many older Cubans see the yummies as mere opportunists in this process. "The yummies want to be the new political and economic power," says a Havana businessman who discovered...
...chronicle of the federal drug bust known as Operation Swordfish, briefly summarized, reads like an episode of Miami Vice scripted by John le Carre. It began in December 1980 in Miami, where Robert Darias, then 46, faced a winter of discontent. A Cuban exile, he had spent 20 months in Fidel Castro's prison camps after being captured during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. He had also served time in an American pokey for tax fraud, and still owed the Internal Revenue Service $200,000. Darias, though, did have a couple of highly marketable assets. His gentlemanly, businesslike...
...1950s, when I grew up and we were all white males," he added. "There was one African American in my class of 700 at Princeton...and the only Latino was the son of Batista, the Cuban dictator...
...that reviewers of limited reading may take. I think actually magical realism has been so overdone that it's really just a technique. What I wanted to do with Fourteen Sisters was to show the richness of the past, an American past but also interceding with this Cuban psyche and also with the Irish take on things, the melancholy which I guess is in all my books. There are parts of Fourteen Sisters that to me are truly magical that no one mentions, so different from Garcia Marquez that it's amazing to me. I could've written a follow...