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Voices on Cuba, exile, and life before and after the revolution.

This Castro quotes collection includes a Cuban-born voice recalling their birth the same year Fidel Castro rose to power, before their Father moved the family to Miami.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Caps
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Nov 07, 2020

I remembered staffing a volunteer table for ACT UP in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood in 1991, on the corner of Castro and 18th Street, and on my table were posters, stickers, and t-shirts that bore the same slogan in all caps - ACT UP slogan house style. I wore one of those shirts to model for passers-by.

Quotes by Alexander Chee

Future
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Nov 07, 2020

While Fidel Castro used to deliver his marathon seven-hour speeches in Havana, Cubans used to joke that if Spanish lacked a future tense, their leader would be speechless. He was only fluent in broken promises, they lamented.

Other lines look back at Havana nightlife in the 1950s and call for supporting dissidents in Cuba today, together spanning decades of change before and after the revolution.

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