I’ll discuss my writing and how I left Cuba to seek creative freedom and to flee repression on Wednesday, April 3, from 7 pm to 8 pm. Learn more on the Library’s website. I look forward to seeing you there.
Category Archives: Blog
The Cuban Missile Crisis, a foot soldier’s story
Before 1959 the Cold War had not been a widely held concern in Cuba. Folks assumed that our nation was too insignificant to be targeted by the Russians, and because the United States was our ally since World War II, the notion that American nuclear-tipped missiles could rain down on us was inconceivable. This started …
Yunel Escobar’s slur didn’t come from left field
Two or three minutes after I saw the photo of Escobar’s cheeks and read the news stories, I considered writing this. But I decided to wait until things returned to normal so people would read me with cooler heads. It’s important to say I’ve never met the Toronto Blue Jays short-stop and don’t think I …
New Book is Out
It pleases me to let you know you that my new novel, Riders of Land and Tide, has been published as an eBook and for the next six months will be available exclusively at www.Kobo.com. Firmly convinced that this is my best work of fiction, I unashamedly recommend it to those who liked other books that I penned. …
Corruption in Cuba
News from Cuba concerning a crackdown against entrenched corruption have circled the world in the last few weeks. A former food industries minister, Alejandro Roca, is serving a 15-year sentence. The president of Cubana de Aviacion was fired and 14 executives of that airline and a tourism agency were sentenced to prison terms. Officials from the …
Letter to The Sun
Sir: As a Cuban Canadian author, I am concerned about how The Sun has reported and commented recent events that have taken place in Cuba. In what regards the case of Cody LeCompte, I have two observations. It is a mistake to equate a government with the people it rules. If the notoriously incompetent Communist government …
The worst enemies of capitalism
In late 2002 or early 2003, residing in Spain, I read a laudatory article on capitalism in a prestigious, pro-market, right-of-centre British magazine that included this assertion: “Some capitalists are the worst enemies of capitalism.” Twenty or more years earlier I had concluded that a number of politicians and religious leaders are the worst enemies …
