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Video: Latina writer taps into her Cuban heritage to create a ‘novel’ twist about the fate of Fidel Castro and Cuba

Jun 27, 2013, 1:37 PM 0

LatinaLista — For Cuban exile Elizabeth Huergo, and other political refugees from the Communist island, Fidel Castro is a person who single-handedly changed their lives and their destinies. So, those of them who daydream of what happens to their…

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Texas Latino theater director travels to Cuba and discovers how local artists ‘speak’ from the stage

Apr 9, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

By Alain Castillo LatinaLista Despite equipment challenges and political oppression, Cuban theatre artists are producing great work and showing their solid commitment to the craft by staging productions using the most basic of equipment and shining an even brighter…

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Guest Voz: As Castro’s regime turns increasingly oppressive, the world’s silence is deafening

Jan 8, 2013, 12:00 AM 0

By Alain Castillo LatinaLista Looking into the history of the Cuban revolutionary leader Camilo Cienfuegos, who helped combat the military forces of former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar in the late 1950s, I was intrigued to discover that…