Word: soler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuban middle class, hatching deals over lunch at Little Havana's American Club or lounging on weekends at the Big Five Club, life in the U.S. is a dream that grew out of a nightmare. Says Frank Soler, 35, who fled to the U.S. at age 17 and is now editor of El Miami Herald, a Spanish-language edition of the Miami Herald with a daily circulation of 50,000: "Suddenly we lost everything and were confronted with potential poverty and hunger. Fear spurred us to work our tails off to regain what we once had." Result...
...Martinez Soler says he is "rationally optimistic, by looking at objective facts" about the future of civil liberties and freedoms in Spain, but "emotionally, I have a tragic premonition that there will be another coup d'etat and dictatorship...
When Martinez Soler was notified of his Nieman Fellowship award during August, he almost refused it since at the time he was awaiting court martial because of another controversial article in Doblon and could not leave Spain...
However, King Juan Carlos eventually granted him amnesty and Martinez Soler was able to accept the fellowship...
...Nieman Fellow, Martinez Soler says he plans to concentrate on television communications, a field he says interests him because Spanish television is presently subject to considerable government regulation, much more so than the press...