Search Results for: Rafael Rojas

Me and YouTube

I don’t know about you, but I still remember that game-show aired on Cuban television in the 1980s, “9550” (the exact number of kilometers separating Havana from Moscow), in which Yiqui Quintana, a sports commentator turned host, would give the top prizewinner a 15-day trip to the former Soviet Union.

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Eliseo “Lichi” Alberto

“It’s impossible, to speak poorly of him.,” said my daughter Charlene. I discovered someone who insisted on seeing everyone as good, in each individual case scrutinizing all possible virtues – no matter how slight.

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Subdued Response to Cuban’s Death

The deafening silence of Latin American governments has fallen like another shovelful of earth on the grave of Cuban dissident Orlando Zapata, a bricklayer who died Feb. 23 after nearly three months on hunger strike in prison on the Caribbean island.

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