Alina Fernandez, daughter of Fidel Castro and outspoken critic of his regime, spoke to students Wednesday night to unravel the personal story of her father’s counterrevolution.
Fernandez, who wrote “Castro’s Daughter: An Exile’s Memoir of Cuba,” took a packed University Auditorium through her childhood and into her adult life. She escaped from Cuba through Spain in 1993. Still, the revolution follows her.
“What’s most bizarre,” she said, “is that I come from a country in which the revolution is endless.”
Fernandez described the defining point of her father’s counterrevolution as the moment in 1959 when her cartoons left the TV screen, replaced by an image of Castro descending the Cuban mountains alongside his fellow counterrevolutionaries.
“That’s when Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse vanished from my screen forever,” she said. […]
“The basic quality is that they’re hopeless,” she said. “The best you can aspire to in Cuba is to become a barber or a hairdresser or a manicurist. That’s the maximum you can achieve now. That’s why people are able to get on a piece of wood and travel 90 miles through water full of sharks.”
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