To clarify my prior post about Fidel's speech on January 9, 1959, I did not mean to imply that Batista left on that date, too. He departed about midnight on December 31, 1958 from Camp Columbia, a military air base. At the time, Castro was in Oriente province in far eastern Cuba, having just defeated Batista's army. He began a caravan on January 1, 1959 from Santiago de Cuba west to Havana, arriving there to speak on January 9th.
I read a joke on an English language blog written by Rebeca Monzo from Cuba:
A teacher asks her students what is the future tense of the infinitive "to protest?"
Without hesitating a second, Pedro raises his hand and answers, "prison."
So much for democracy in Fidel's Cuba.
Current events in Cuba as told by R. Ira Harris, author of Island of the White Rose, a novel published by Bridge Works Publishing Co. To buy a copy, visit http://www.islandofthewhiterose.com by clicking on the link below:
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