Tertulias At Miami Joint to Discuss U.S. Cuba Policy

Ink and coffee framed the countercultural debates in the cafés of San Francisco, New York and Paris, so Neli Santamarina figures her little joint on Southwest Eighth Street, Tinta Y Café, might help pry open exile Miami's Cuba discourse a half-century later.

Santamarina plans to begin monthly tertulias cubanas or talk sessions -- an old Spanish tradition -- at her coffeehouse so that people who disagree with U.S. policy toward Cuba can share their feelings with those who would never stray from the status quo. The first one is Sunday.

In any other city, an open talk about Cuba policy might not be a big deal. But in Miami, where thousands know of someone who was a political prisoner in Cuba or who died trying to flee the communist government, talk of softening U.S. policy toward Cuba is not always met kindly. It has drawn condemnation from talk radio, street protests and even violent attacks in the decades past.

"My parents didn't sacrifice themselves and come to this country so we would stay quiet and be afraid to speak out, " Santamarina said. "Everyone says things need to change in Cuba, and that's true. But they also need to change in Miami. There's a culture of intimidation in Miami that doesn't allow people to criticize U.S. policy toward Cuba. I'm not going to let that go on."

With its own timbiriche window serving crispy croquetas and cortaditos with evaporated milk, Tinta reflects the anti-Versailles of exile thought. An art book featuring Ernesto "Che" Guevara on the cover sits on a book shelf -- placed there by Santamarina to provoke conversation -- and the Cuban hip-hop sound of Orishas thump from speakers. Couches and threads of conversations critical of U.S. policy toward Cuba greet people as they enter.

"Miami is at a tipping point, " Santamarina said on a recent afternoon as she tackled a plate with a plantain leaf-wrapped tamal, manchego cheese and arugula. "I feel that we need to give a voice to the silent majority of people in Miami who are frustrated with the failures of U.S. Cuba policy."

Santamarina and her friend, anti-embargo exile activist Sylvia Wilhelm, each invited ten people to Sunday's tertulia and asked them to bring someone who disagrees with them on U.S. Cuba policy.

Outside the famous Versailles Restaurant on Southwest Eighth Street, Miami's best-known tertulia on the Cuba issue thrives daily. Near the timbiriche that fronts Calle Ocho, casual groups form in the sparse shade of palms, always coming around to the topic percolating in Miami's collective consciousness for two generations.

On Wednesday, former political prisoner Dagoberto Venturita, 72, wandered into a conversation about the U.S. embargo of Cuba. He thinks Santamarina's tertulia plays into the hands of Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro.

"Those people, that's leftism, " Venturita said. "Why do they come to this country if [the United States] is a democracy. Everyone has a right to talk, but there are a lot of sentiments and feelings in this community against their position."

Cuban American lawyer Raúl Hernández-Morales, chatting in a group of three outside Versailles, snickered at the concept of a tertulia to discuss the U.S. embargo: "What embargo? The embargo hasn't accomplished anything. The embargo has been an excuse for all of Fidel's tyranny."

Santamarina believes recent changes in the leadership both in Cuba and Washington are cause to reexamine the strained U.S.-Cuba relationship. Fidel Castro's brother Raúl now runs Cuba, and Democrats, including many who want an opening with Cuba, now control Congress.

"You know what, I'm not a commie, so get over it, " Santamarina said of those who disagree with her. "We have to get beyond those ridiculous insults and talk this out. Lots of us feel that the best way to bring about change in Cuba is to increase contact."

Earlier this month, Santamarina hosted a photo exhibit on the second floor of the building that houses Tinta, the Jóse Martí Building, known for amural of the island on a wall that can be seen from I-95. The exhibit was critical of U.S. policy that prohibits Cubans in the United States from visiting family on the island more than once every three years.

An awkward confrontation punctuated the night.

Alvaro Fernandez, chairman of the Cuban American Commission for Family Rights, which aims to end restrictions on family travel, unveiled the exhibit. He said the photos captured "some of the pain experienced by families who can't see each other just because of a policy, " a woman in the small crowd interrupted.

"Excuse me, didn't we all know that we were going to be separated?" she said. "I don't understand your attitude, I'm sorry."

Fernandez asked her to reserve her comments until he was finished. But the woman interrupted again.

"President Bush didn't divide us, " she said. "Fidel is the one that divided us. He kept us from going for 25 years."

As the visibly upset woman left the building, she declined to provide her name to a Miami Herald reporter, saying the people giving the presentation were "cabrones" (bastards) and "asesinos" (assassins).

"They are just saying half the truth, " she said. "I came here in 1962 and for 20 years, I couldn't go to Cuba and there was no Bush. It was Fidel's decision to prohibit us."

Santamarina, who also is a real estate investor, was not dismayed. In a way, the confrontation represented the kind of discussion she wants to promote -- but without raised voices, insults or hurt feelings.

"Let's stop talking like that, " she said. "It's not about attacking someone. We have to stop the fights. To quote a T-shirt my friend was wearing the other day, what we need is dissent without fear."

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/16762967.htm

Comments

[a different thought]

Nelly has always been cool!!! I think it's a great idea. But, then again, I belive in the 1st Amendment.

[Lincoln Cushing]

Hello-

I was pleased to see your article about the Tinta Y Café. very good news. Brave woman!

A question - you mention "An art book featuring Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara on the cover sits on a book shelf" - I'm the author of _Revolucion! Cuban Poster Art_ and I wondered if it was mine?

Mil gracias.

Lincoln Cushing
nacido en Havana 1953

[Mambi Watch]

Its a great idea to begin spreading new arguments and debate.

But, as I write this, the discussion on US policy towards Cuba is dominated by Spanish AM radio, local television news, and local newspaper outlets. The majority of which support the US embargo towards Cuba, and is very intolerant of differing views.

Its an long uphill battle, that may be just beginning.

[Mambi Waaaatch]

I'll be there to lament the fact that those intolerant few in south florida that use their political power to try to destabilize such a great government as Cuba's

Waaaaaaa!

[r. eladio jimenez]

US policy towards Cuba remains what it is because the malignant Castros have not given in one inch in reestablishing democracy, elections, free speech, many newspapers, open discussion, or stopped jailing dissidents who want the way to real democracy. The violations of human rights in Cuba are flagrant, perhaps more than so they are criminal. The Castros and their men/women, many of them rastreros chivatos from the barrio committees, etc., need to be brought to justice. I'm not an inflexible mind, but one in search of justide. Now that the crimes have been and are being committed for forty eight years (more if one considers the criminal attempt on sick/wounded at Moncada in 1953, and the Castros' cowardly retreat), when Cuba is in desrepair, ruined, and when prostitution is an industry and apartheid for its citizens a custom, the communist tyranny wants---through its agents in Miami, Los Angeles, and in several communist-oriented connections in the USA and other countries---to propagandize for reflection and understanding, for dialogues, talks, commerce, etc. Cuba can trade with anybody it wants in the world. Cuba was ruined on purpose by a tyrant who wanted the people in the country to depend on him, exclusively. Go tell it on the mountain!!!
The Nazis killed millions of Jews, and the criminals were sought for decades until brought to justice. The same applies to the criminals who rule Cuba and for whom these forums, like Tinta y Cafe, spew their malevolent baloney, which flows out of hell itself. Let the fools believe in these "negotiators," but the ones who know what happened and is happening in Cuba, we know better and will continue opposing you. Nelly is so cool she's a pseudo-intellectual, and the pseudo-intellectuality has origins that we are only too familiar with...Go tell it on the Mountain, boys! Go tell it on the Mountain, girls! Keep worshiping the ghost of that sob Guevara, whom I saw personally in late 1958, in Las Villas, and who derived such repugnant taste for killing people for expediency. He who apologizes for criminals is indeed one.

[Mambi Watch]

One of the most popular falsehoods in Miami that dominate the rhetoric around the issue of Cuba is the idea that dissent implies apologetics.

There is no evidence to indicate this is so.

The vast majority of people who oppose US policy towards Cuba (including the internal Cuban dissidence) also condemn the human rights abuses of the Cuban government. There is an overwhelming unanimity in the foreign policy literature that indicate this. The Cuban dissidence is a shinning example of this attitude. Furthermore, the majority of Americans who wish to see re-established diplomacy with Cuba, also have an unfavorable view of Fidel Castro.

Condemning current US policy in way infers apologies to Cuban human rights abuses. On the contrary, many who oppose US policy towards Cuba wish to better address the human rights violations, not isolate them.

[Mambi Watch]

I also encourage everyone to go to the Mambi Waaaatch blog. It has a clear outline of the most popular false attributions made towards dissenters.

[Mambi Watch]

[Correction: Condemning current US policy in NO way infers apologies to Cuban human rights abuses.]

[Mambi Waaaatch]

I also encourage everyone to visit my blog to see what I'm really all about.

[cubanpatriot]

Did our intrepid cub reporter attend the tertulia?

[Mambi Watch]

I went to the demonstration at Jose Marti Park. Did I see you there?

[Teresa Cruz]

It is easy to grasp why tinta y cafe(nice name) was opend in Miami. it is imposible to open a restaurant with this purpose in Havana. we do not have tertulias about US policy towards Cuba or the embargo.

Let's discuss the embargo that the regime of Havana has imposed to our nation. For example: a countryman in Oriente can not sell the limited products that he is allowed to produce, to a fellowcitizen in Pinar del Rio.

Besides discussing travels to Cuba, let's discuss the cost andrestrictions that the Cuban govenment imposes.

It is not a nice idea to invite people of all ways of thinking to discuss certain issues sitting by a book about Ernesto guevara de la Serna, he is a controversial personality.

Teresa Cruz
New Jersey.

[brickbradford]

It would be interesting to look up Jose Marti's comments about what those who travel to enemy-occupied home country to dialogue with the occupiers are. He called them traitors. Are you going to tell me that the Max Lesnick opposes the violations of human rights, and that the Bullshitero-dialoguers ever say anything negative about Castro and his crimes?
Come on, now. What's Che Guevara's picture doing there, in cozy little Tinta y Cafe? And why are many of these dialogueros
traveling to Cuba, back and forth, as perros por su casa?
Come on now, guys, Castro sympathizers are Castro sympathizers, period. Trying to throw the wool over the eyes of naive Americans is one thing, but to plain lie about intentions is another.

All one has to do is to listen to that venomous Radio Miami station in the mornings to know that the venom is phenomenally close to that spouted by the Castros, the Perez Rocas, and closely aids their words and whatever connection they can sneak into US Journalism.

BS is the key word.

[cubanpatriot]

Brickaford, the words "fucking idiot" do not do you justice.

Perhaps "cuntface" does.

[rauleladio]

Thank you cubanpatriot. Coming from you it is an honor. Glad you got angry. Typical reaction of your "calaña" only you try to hide what you are behind little tertulias with Max Lesnick et al. You just showed exactly what you are. Do you know the word "desalmao." Do you know the word traitor?" Here's something for you to chew on about the type of Cubans to which you belong to a T (Articulo de Esteban Fernandez). Since the late stages of the revolution against Batista, there awoke in Cuba a type of person who did nothing but envy, long to kick and kill those who worked hard and had earned what they had. They now meet in Miami, and get offended when the truth is spit on their faces:

> EL CRIMINAL CUBANO
> Por Esteban Fernandez
> Perfectamente sé que la mayoría de los cubanos prefiere que escriba sobre "la frita cubana" y "los frijoles negros cubanos". Pero, aunque muchos crean lo contrario, esta no es una columna de "coña" sino que es producto de un estudio serio de LO NUESTRO, y lo nuestro tiene cosas muy simpáticas, pero tiene otras que le pueden causar espanto al mismísimo Satanás. En Cuba salieron los asesinos hasta de abajo de las piedras. Yo diría que este proceso ha dado, por lo menos, 50 mil asesinos.
> A mí me dicen: "¿Usted es Esteban Fernández el que hace artículos sobre nosotros los cubanos?" Si, ese soy yo. Pero también soy el Esteban Fernández que tiene que decirles que un muchacho de 24 años es detenido en Cuba, lo interrogan, no habla, y entonces le traen a su esposa embarazada, y UN GRUPO DE CUBANOS (comunistas) le da patadas en el estómago a la muchacha hasta que, frente a su esposo, ABORTA.
> El cadáver de un fusilado es llevado en un camión hasta el Cementerio de Colón, allí lo están esperando su esposa y su hija de 11 años. La niña tiene en sus manos una cruz de madera por la cual pagó 7 pesos. Los guardias CUBANOS (comunistas) le quitan la cruz, se la pasan por sus genitales, la rompen, y le dicen a la muchachita: "El H.P. de tu padre no merece esta cruz".
> Solamente hay que hablar 15 minutos con un ex-preso cubano para horrorizarnos, y los que se han pasado cerca de 48 años fusilando, torturando, dando cadenazos y bayonetazos, no son checos, ni polacos, ni chinos ¡son cubanos!
> He conocido hombres (como Capote) con sus dedos cercenados por machetazos dados por CUBANOS (comunistas).
> En La Campana un cubano (comunista) llamado Félix Torres asesinó a cientos de campesinos. Y cubanos (comunistas) se han fajado por participar en los pelotones de fusilamientos para recibir 50 pesos más de sueldo al mes...
> ¿Son franceses los que desde una lancha patrullera ametrallan a las balsas donde van hasta niños recién nacidos, por el grave delito de querer abandonar el infierno castrista?.
> Claro que es muy fácil echarle la culpa de todo al par de monstruos que parió Lina, pero la realidad es que han tenido la ayuda de miles y miles de mini-monstruos CUBANOS (comunistas).
> ¿Usted sabe lo triste que es pensar que Richard Ramírez y Charles Manson, si hubieran sido cubanos (comunistas), en lugar de prisioneros hubieran sido Generales en nuestro país?... ¡Que doloroso es pensar que la misma nación que dio a "Chicharito" dio a Ramirito, que el país que dio a las Comparsas Habaneras y los Sugar Kings, también ha dado a los guardias fronterizos y las Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida!.
> La tierra que nos dio a Lecuona y su piano, a Miñoso y su bate, a Celia y sus guarachas, a Álvarez Guedes y sus chistes, también nos dio a los fiscales Pelayito Paredón y Charco de Sangre.
> Oh, cuánto le gustó a los lectores mi artículo sobre lo lustroso que siempre hemos tenido los zapatos los cubanos, pero en Cuba hay un hombre (hoy Coronel) que tiene las mismas botas puestas por 48 años orgulloso de su color vino producto de la sangre coagulada de sus fusilados.
> Las abuelitas me llaman para decirme que "ellas les leen mis escritos a sus nietos para que sepan COMO VERDADERAMENTE SOMOS LOS CUBANOS". No creo que querrán leerles este, ni decirles que los cubanos hemos producido una pandilla peor que la de Al Capone y la de Adolfo Hitler.

[Jose Marti]

JESUS RAUL PEREZ MENDEZ, chief of the Department of the Community Abroad of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and captain of the Cuban Directorate General of Intelligence (DGI) defected on July 13, 1983, and informed the following:
That the America Department of the Cuban Communist Party (DA), the ICAP, and the DGI control the ANTONIO MACEO BRIGADE (BAM), CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, CIRCULO DE CULTURA CUBANA, CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIES, VENCEREMOS BRIGADE (VB), NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK LAWYERS, PARTIDO SOCIALISTA PUERTORRIQUEÑO-NYC, AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY USA. They are all controlled by ALFREDO GARCIA ALMEIDA, chief of the North American Section of the Americas Department and former political counselor at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in NYC, with the exception of CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, which is controlled by HECTOR MANUEL ZAYAS QUIALA, of the DGI, and second secretary of the Cuban Mission NYC.
The leaders of the BAM and the VB receive training of indoctrination in ideology, psychology, organization, propaganda techniques, interview techniques, and intelligence gathering. The groups are financed by illegal commercial activities of nartotics. The BAM serves for purposes of propaganda and intelligence. ANDRES GOMEZ, MARIANA GASTON ROCHE, ARMANDO D. GARCIA, and MANUEL R. GOMEZ CAINOS are controlled by the DGI. The ICAP considers ALBOR RUIZ SALAZAR unstable. ARMANDO D. GARCIA is a homosexual and MARIANA GASTON a prostitute.
The BAM is controlled by JESUS ARBOLEYA CERVERA, of the DGI in Cuba and former second secretary of the Cuban Mission in NYC, by way of FRANCISCO GONZALEZ ARUCA in Washington, D.C.; RAUL ALZAGA MANRESA in San Juan; MAURICIO
GASTON ROCHE and MIREM URIARTE in Boston; FELISA SOTO in Miami; ROSARIO MORENO in Los Angeles; ALICIA TORRES VIGIL in Chicago; and in New York with ARMANDO D. GARCIA, MARIANA GASTON ROCHE, ANDRES GOMEZ, AMELIA VICKIE MEDEROS, ELISEO PEREZ-STABLE and MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE. When the BAM visits Cuba they are attended by JESUS ARBOLEYA CERVERA and NORMA PIÑEIRO, of the DGI.
RAFAEL BETANCOURT ABIO and OSVALDO ESTIVIL belong to the BAM in Miami. JOSE ANTONIO HERNANDEZ FRIAS, leader of the BAM in USA, was sent to Spain to organize the BAM there. REGINA CASAL was sent to Venezuela to organize the BAM there.
The BAM is financed by travel agencies in NYC and receive from $100 to $400 for each exile that travels to Cuba. MARAZUL was established to finance the BAM, AREITO, and the CIRCULO DE CULTURA CUBANA, the BAM receiving the majority of the funds.
The daily activities of MARAZUL are controlled by FRANCISCO GONZALEZ ARUCA from Washington, D.C., who is controlled by JESUS ARBOLEYA CERVERA from Havana.
The CIRCULO DE CULTURA CUBANA, EDICIONES VITRAL, and AREITO, are controlled by the DGI. ISIDRO GOMEZ and JESUS ARBOLEYA CERVERA, of the ICAP and the DGI, placed MARIFELI PEREZ-STABLE in charge of the CIRCULO DE CULTURA CUBANA. She substituted the deceased LOURDES CASAL, who was DGI. The annual plans of MARIFELI are prepared by the DGI and ICAP. The CIRCULO DE CULTURA CUBANA and the BAM are maintained with funds generated by EDICIONES VITRAL, by way of the sale of books and records that are gifts of the Cuban Culture Ministry and are delivered by ICAP. MARIFELI receives $100 for each tourist that travels to Cuba with the CIRCULO DE
CULTURA CUBANA. MARIFELI was infiltrated in the INSTITUTE FOR CUBAN STUDIES of MARIA CRISTINA HERRERA, whose position was made more favorable toward Cuba.
In 1981 the leaders of AREITO met in Cuba with ISIDRO GOMEZ, FAUSTINO PELAEZ, and JORGE GALLARDO FERNANDEZ, of the ICAP and the DGI, and with CARLOS RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, of the Communist Party, whom advised AREITO not to take positions so identical with those of the Cuban government.
ARNALDO ALONSO, president of CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, directs the BUREAU OF COMMUNITY SERVICES, with offices in the same locale as MARAZUL, who ship their packages to Cuba. ANDRES GOMEZ, who lived in Washington, D.C., was financed by MARAZUL. HAROLD MAYERSON, the lawyer for MARAZUL, and member of the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, with MICHAEL RATNER, are controlled by the DGI.
ARNALDO ALONZO was involved in a power struggle with CARLOS GARCIA in CASA DE LAS AMERICAS, where other members are LUIS MIRANDA, who the DGI suspects of being a CIA operative; ANA MARIA GARCIA, former member of the BAM; and OSCAR RUBEN CICCONE and his wife, who also belong to the BAM, VB, and the COMMUNIST PARTY USA.
Those of the AMERICA DEPARTMENT in the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in NYC control the VECEREMOS BRIGADE. GRACIELA TABIO MEDINA, official of the DA and of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, selects the members of the VENCEREMOS BRIGADE, whose leaders are: the anthropologist JOHNNETTA COLE, DARA TORPE, EDDY DEMMINGS, MICHELLE FRANK, JACKIE RAMOS, and CAROLYN BOSCH. The first three are controlled by the AMERICA DEPARTMENT. NANI MARTINEZ, of the VB, works in the United Methodist Church in NYC. ROBERTO REGALADO ALVAREZ, of the DGI and
first secretary of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, DC, controls the VENCEREMOS BRIGADE. SANDRA LEVINSON, of the VB and director of the CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIES, is controlled by ICAP, although the DGI considers her a CIA operative.
MIGUEL FELIPE MARQUES is the secretary general of the ALIANCE OF COMMUNITY WORKERS in Newark, NJ, whose assistant is CARLOS ZALDIVAR ESCALONA, and both are controlled by JUSTO LUIS BETANCOURT and ISAIAS PEREZ, of the DGI.
The director of the Casa Cuba in Madrid, ROSENDO CANTO HERHANDEZ, receibes $1,000 monthly from ICAP from the sale of travel tickets of exiles to Cuba. The Casa Cuba is directed by: LIDIA ANDERSON in Canada; MARINES MEDERO in Mexico; and AQUINO in Caracas.

[Justo J. Sanchez]

Hace semanas fui blanco de un bombardeo electrónico contra un establecimiento tildado de “quintacolumnista”: Tinta y Café. No hay nada que provoque en mí tal curiosidad y admiración como la frescura de la rebeldía. Allí me personé con mis Belgian Shoes de Park Avenue y una recién confeccionada Thomas Pink, vamos, como para desentonar. A los rebeldes de salón, poca soga ha de dársele. Pensé encontrarme a Max Lesnick en uniforme de cuero, maceítos en cadenas, a Andrés Gómez repitiendo consignas revolucionarias y a Paco Aruca en orgiásticos placeres. Me imaginé, en fin, un Bosco vivant. ¡Qué chasco!

El lugar, hélas, resultó perfectamente civilizado. Que quede claro mi compromiso pluralista: ¡lo visité con un amigo republicano! Bien pensado e ideado con gusto, Tinta y Café ofrece magníficos batidos de frutas, pasteles, bocaditos, bocadillos, sopas y postres que por su valor calórico pudieran estar vedados por el MINFAR y esas organizaciones anacrónicas que caracterizan el Parque Jurassic a noventa millas: raison de las tertulias e iracundia . Ningún afiche del homofóbico Che aparecía por aquellos contornos. Cualquiera de mis amigas de Swifty's o Payard's se sentiría a gusto en Tinta y Café.

Conocí a la dueña, Nelí Santamarina. Graduada en ciencias políticas por F.I.U., de conversación fácil, dice estar "consciente del sacrificio de mis padres para traerme a un país de libertad". Sus tertulias abren la posibilidad a dialogar sin temor sobre otras políticas vis-a-vis la problemática cubana, teniendo claro que no está de acuerdo con el régimen de Fidel Castro y que ha sido testigo de la miseria que atraviesa el pueblo de la isla. La Santamarina lleva a nivel popular lo que la profesora María Cristina Herrera realizó durante décadas con sus tertulias del Instituto de Estudios Cubanos para estudiosos, políticos y periodistas. El rigor académico de la Santamarina como politóloga se queda en la cocina, con los bocadillos, cuando compara los campos de concentración UMAP (producto estatal) a la Moral Majority (poderosa minoría afiliada a la corrupta administración Bush). La restauranteur parece olvidar que el cuarteto Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Gonzáles crearon campos de concentracion (Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib) con fines cosméticos: para musulmanes fundamentalistas que resultaban desagradables a la vista.

Santamarina habla con tristeza de su hermano, el recién fallecido Rafael, su único socio. Muchos le achacan al ex editor de Réplica, Max Lesnick, como socio capitalista. La figura que data de un caduco activismo histriónico en Miami ha visitado el establecimiento en una sola ocasión y jamás ha asistido a las tertulias. “¡Tampoco es para tirarle la puerta en la cara!” La cara de Santamarina se ilumina, al referirse a la cooperativa artística que surge desde el segundo piso de Tinta y Café. La apertura que sigue en sus tertulias del primer piso se extiende al ofrecer espacio a artistas visuales emergentes en el espacio de su segunda planta.

No fue un chasco total. Mi zumo de melón estuvo fresco y refrescante, la conversación chispeante y resultó reafirmante descubrir que una mujer empresario tiene un lugar abierto al pluralismo. ¿Se utilizaría aqui el viejo artilugio del nexo con la izquierda como ardid publicitario para lograr acceso gratuito a las redes de la ultraderecha y una campaña publicitaria gratuita? La curiosidad se impone a los ideales. ¿Sería acaso la competencia en un intento por aniquilar a una arriviste?

No me encontré el cuadro del Bosco que esperaba ni el infierno dantesco. Mi gran amigo republicano estaba feliz: entre la cooperativa de artistas está la hija de un matrimonio amigo “de allá del Cayo [léase Key Biscayne]”. Ahhhh, el dulce encanto de la burguesía.

Justo J. Sánchez