Category: Cuban History

Firsthand Account Lays Bare the Cuban Revolution

Commentary A longtime editor found a historic treasure in the 1980s: two brothers who had lived through the Cuban Revolution but on opposite sides. One had joined the U.S. effort, resisted Fidel Castro’s dictatorship, and become a political prisoner. The other had been a devoted Communist Party insider and ideologue. The two Rivero brothers—Emi and…


Take a Trip Through Cuban History and Culture in Tropical Key West

by Alicia Eler Star Tribune At 8 a.m. in Key West, a rooster is crowing somewhere, shouting at the top of its lungs. At 5 Brothers, the hole-in-the-wall corner grocery store not far from the Key West Cemetery, a man with thick white hair and a big belly brews a buchi espresso while chatting with…