Gloria Estefan: ‘I Can’t Stand on a Stage in Cuba’
Singer Gloria Estefan, when asked by Larry Flick if she would consider returning to Cuba to perform in concert, stressed that it’s complicated. Her father fought in the Bay of Pigs, and life in the wake of the Dec. 2014 normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations is still pretty miserable:
“The Castro government, with this opening, has actually created and made the Cuban citizens second-class citizens, in their own home. The tourists can go and do things, Cuban exiles can go and enjoy the things in Cuba, that the people that live there cannot enjoy or afford, and won’t be able to for a long time…”
More At: http://www.therealcuba.com/?p=1934
Life goes on, this happens in Cuba, good for her to take such a noble stand.
ISIS and Al Qaeda are such arch-villains along with Boko Haram and some others, it's a new spin on whom the bad guys are. Still, we need to remember this other.
