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...genuine Cuban air hero. Born 48 years ago in Pinar del Rio province, where his father owned several movie theaters, Del Pino as a teenager attended Harrison Chilhowee Baptist Academy in Seymour, Tenn., then returned to Cuba. At 14, he was arrested for demonstrating against Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. In the late 1950s, he joined Castro's revolutionaries...
...they left. Quirino Lopez, 54, had been back home only a few weeks when he concluded he had no chance of getting work. He plans to sneak into Texas. Says he: "Better to be arrested there than to starve here." Mauricio Martinez, 18, and his best friend Juan Pablo Fulgencio, 20, each earned about $7,000 during the 18 months they held minimum-wage jobs in a Chicago meat-packing plant. Whatever did not go toward rent and food was spent on the flashy clothes that seem sharply out of place in Huandacareo. No longer comfortable in his hometown, Fulgencio...
Padilla, a genial, garrulous man of 53, first came to the U.S. in the '50s to escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...
...Then all eyes shifted to the central balcony, where President Fidel Castro, 56, stood alone, his head bowed. Stepping to the lectern, Castro used words he had first uttered to a frenzied and much larger crowd from the same spot exactly 25 years earlier, announcing the overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista: "The revolution begins...
...year-old minor bureaucrat in Cuba's Ministry of Communications when the police arrested him in December 1960. The charge: "counterrevolutionary activity" because he had publicly criticized Fidel Castro's increasing dependence on the Soviet Union. Although he had supported Castro's 1959 overthrow of Dictator Fulgencio Batista, Valladares was, after a two-hour trial, sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment. During his confinement, Valladares began to record images and thoughts on the torn-off margins of Castro's official newspaper, Granma. Some of these fragments, which were smuggled out of prison in dirty laundry...