Try this interview with young actor whose Cuban parents fled the revolution and settled in Puerto Rico. He is appearing in the upcoming Che movie, The Argentine, starring Benicio del Toro. I understand the difficulty of getting acting jobs, so I'm not outraged at his selling out. And he does try to describe the essential wrongness of the regime. Then he puts his foot in it and lives up to every stereotype as to the mental acuity of actors. Try this, first in Spanish:
Es un personaje vital de la historia latinoamericana y comparto sus principios básicos y sí, estoy de acuerdo con ellos, pero hasta cierto punto. Ya el abuso que se ha dado de parte del Gobierno (cubano) y las presiones de otros gobiernos de Latinoaméricana han sido una traba completa al desarrollo político y socioeconómico del país”
He is a vital character in the history of Latin America and I share his basic principles and, yes, I am in agreement with them until a certain point.
Which of those principles would it be, I wonder. Execution without trial? The inferiority of the black race? Which of his other enduring principles? I won't translate the rest of the excerpt, except to say that he goes on to point out how in practice, they have been a hobble to the political and socioeconomic development of the country. Cuba, I'm supposing.
Read the article here. It's in Spanish.
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