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Growing Up in Castro's Cuba
by Mark Milke on June 18, 2009 | Book Review, Cuba
In a strange twist of a double coincidence, Luis M. Garcia was born in 1959, the year of Cuba’s revolution, and in the town of Banes, the birthplace of deposed dictator Fulgencio Batista (born there in 1901). Garcia’s shopkeeper parents, initially supportive of the 1959 revolution, later applied to leave Cuba after they lost their small business in one of Fidel Castro’s nationalization programs. The application to leave meant that from that moment on, the Garcia family were “gusanos” – “counter-revolutionaries” – in the view of the regime.
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by Mark Milke on June 19, 2009 | Cuba
C2C editor Mark Milke was in Cuba for the resignation of Fidel Castro; here are his observations on 49 years of Fidel.
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Crime and Punishment
If the chattering classes want to know why the public thinks crime is still an issue, maybe they should look at how "ex"-criminals get to create new victims all over again....
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