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...Daniel Balmori ’10 are not talking about the future resident of the White House. Instead, the president they are concerned with will inhabit the Presidential Palace over 1,400 miles away in Havana, Cuba.Though none of them has ever actually set foot on Cuban soil, Lage, Velo, and Balmori care deeply about the island’s politics. All three are officers of the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA). They note, however, that their views are their own and not of the organization, which strives to be inclusive.Their interest is personal as well as political: each...
...Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into the status quo over the course of decades, banning American trade, then tourism, then remittances, and finally any business exchange with foreign firms that violate Cuban alienation. In a triumph of branding, this last restriction was named the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, on the presumption that the best...
...Cuban citizens lack the right to travel and are denied access to hotels and beaches on their own island. Those areas are reserved for tourists. Cubans are paid in Cuban pesos while goods must be purchased at high prices in “convertible” pesos, keeping daily essentials out of reach. Ration cards, which Cubans have to pay for, provide scarce allotments of basic goods, such as two rolls of toilet paper per month. Possessing red meat is illegal, and killing a cow will result in four to 10 years in prison. These are just some examples...
...when we could publish a critical article of this nature without having to fear the retribution of the government. Castro’s resignation is symbolic and significant in its own context, but unfortunately, it won’t mark the start of a new era in Cuban history...
Andrew Velo-Arias, the Harvard College Liason for Cuban American Undergraduate Students Association (CAUSA), lives in Holworthy Hall. Daniel Balmori, the Secretary of CAUSA, lives in Grays Hall...