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...great skills. No one’s going to speak English in Cuba.” Although the applicants haven’t been accepted yet, a few are already planning out their time in Cuba. “I’d really like to travel to Sierra Maestra,” says Daniel T. Littlejohn-Carrillo ’08. Others have already drawn up shopping lists. “Maybe a big Che [Guevara] poster,” says Haley R. Thun ’08, “but you can get that at Newbury Comics...
...choice but to be practical. He is known to be more down-to-earth and sociable than Fidel - unlike Fidel, he loves to drink, dance and tell ribald jokes - and he has been Fidel's most trusted No. 2 since they were guerrillas fighting in Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra in the 1950s. But Raul enjoys little if any of the mystical popularity that Fidel still retains, at least among older Cubans, and which has helped keep him in power since his 1959 revolution. That's a big reason why the government in recent months has engineered a p.r. makeover...
...modern despotisms a promise of the right to be free. Havana, Cuba Dec. 9, 1957 Actually, the top leadership of the running rebellion is so prosperous, conservative and respectable that amused Habaneros are calling it "the best-dressed revolution in history." Of the chief rebel plotters outside the Sierra [Maestra, the rebels' mountain base], four are lawyers, three are physicians, two are financiers, one a mill owner. Deftly combining rebellion with business-as-usual, [an error occurred while processing this directive]each earns more than $20,000 a year. The rebels conspire behind brocade curtains in air-conditioned homes...
...FOOTSTEPS Regent Holidays will lead tours to key Che sites in Cuba, including the Sierra Maestra, a mountain base where he hid with Castro...
...with Fidel Castro and a handful of others, he had crossed the Caribbean in the rickety yacht Granma on the mad mission of invading Cuba and overthrowing the dictator Fulgencio Batista. Landing in a hostile swamp, losing most of their contingent, the survivors fought their way to the Sierra Maestra. A bit over two years later, after a guerrilla campaign in which Guevara displayed such outrageous bravery and skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas. The images were thereafter invariably gigantic...