It’s like a political soap opera: Chavez wins the first somewhat-close election in a decade, securing Cuba’s energy source and top trade partner for years to come, only to be felled by cancer just before his inauguration, tossing the fates of the two nations into uncertainty — OR WILL HE LIVE? No one seems to know if Chavez is dead, dying, or alive in Cuba, where he’s being treated. Everyone there, obviously, cares. Stay tuned…
A story of love and revolution in Cuba. William Morgan was a free-spirited American drawn to Cuba to help Castro fight, only to grow disenchanted with his embrace of communism:
One day in the spring of 1958, while Morgan was visiting a guerrilla camp for a meeting of the Second Front’s chiefs of staff, he encountered a rebel he had never seen before: small and slender, with a face shielded by a cap. Only up close was it evident that the rebel was a woman. She was in her early twenties, with dark eyes and tawny skin, and, to conceal her identity, she had cut her curly light-brown hair short and dyed it black. Though she had a delicate beauty, she locked and loaded a gun with the ease of a bank robber. Morgan later said of a pistol that she carried, “She knows how to use it.”
Her name was Olga Rodríguez.
(via longreads)
Ozzie Guillen, the Florida Marlins manager, was just suspended for five games for telling Time Magazine that he loved Fidel Castro. Not a brilliant move, but probably says more about the society than the man…
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