As you can see below, that was a post on November 1, 2020 (en plena pandemia y campaña electoral norteamericana), entitled, "Trump: Elections, What For?"
Can anyone spot the historical reference in my snarky title?
Well, we know how that went...
While I can't promise that I will be back to blogging on as regular a basis as I did back between 2009 and 2014, I do think that getting off of Facebook (and other social media sites that I will not mention here) in order to post things of a bit longer, more reflective nature, can be good for us at this time.
So...
As the title of this post suggests, here I'm sharing "the first thing I ever published about Cuba."
I found it as I was rummaging through some old files. I wrote it 27 years ago (!) in the spring of 1998.
It's a 3-page reflection I published in the Curriculum Resource Center Newsletter of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University (where I was then a graduate student) about my first ever visit to Cuba for three weeks in the summer of 1997.
Enjoy and I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who takes the time to read it.
I'm especially curious to hear if my impressions of Cuba at time (1997) jibe with your own and how it sounds to you now 27 years later.
It is available here as a PDF and below in photo format (if you click on each photo you will get a more legible version).
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