bq. He had never really studied American literature, he said, and knew very little about it. This admission seemed strange, given Hemingway’s iconic position in Cuba, with his home a veritable holy site. In fact, it made one wonder whether for Castro there was something almost forbidden in the idea of the enemy’s even having [...]
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Cuban Crackdown Numbers
Matthew Hoy has “assembled(Castro’s crackdown)”:http://hoystory.blogspot.com/2003_04_01_hoystory_archive.html#200186445 (along with his employer, the “San Diego Union-Tribune(Mexican novelist joins critics of repression in Cuba)”:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n17cuba.html) a list of people imprisoned and sentences in the recent “purge(Mugabe and Castro)”:http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/2003/04/20/19/13/index.html. It is a very long list.
Mugabe and Castro
!http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/images/mugabe-castro.jpg (Robert Mugabe greeting Fidel Castro in 2000) 150w 180h! One downside of the recent attention paid to Iraq is the fact that no one was paying adequate attention to what was going in two of the world’s other dictatorships. “Robert Mugabe(Under cover of war, Mugabe unleashes a new reign of terror)”:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=398527 has murdered and [...]