Some Teresa Dovalpage stories

I am a big fan of Teresa Dovalpage, the young Cuban writer whose 'A Girl Like Che Guevara' told the real deal on life inside Communist Cuba. Teresa's since escaped castro's hellhole and now lives to write about it so that people will understand. She's got this gentle, humanitarian personality that nevertheless makes no mistakes about the true nature of communist thuggery and it reflects in all her writing. She is a delight to read.

Today I discovered she has a Web site and on it, she has her short stories. I found one that was published a few months back about the experience of being a Cuban in the U.S., and the utterly creepy blanching experience she has encountering ignorant leftists' love of che guevara.

Given what she knows about che's hatred of the U.S., his hatred of freedom, and his brutal deeds in Cuba and the rest of the Americas and Africa, she can't believe her eyes. Nor the bone-stupid answers she gets from che tee shirt wearers when she asks them what they know about che. But she writes about it, a che smackdown that's also a good story - it can be read here.

On her Web site, she's got another good story about the isolation Cubans feel in longing to be foreigners entitled to special shops, hotels and all the perks castro's foreigners get when they come to Cuba. As the foreigners feast, the local Cubans stand on the outside looking in. It's good reading here.

Posted by Mora at May 30, 2005 01:27 PM

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Posted by: Songuacassal at May 30, 2005 02:59 PM

Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at May 30, 2005 03:32 PM