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Are Miami Cubans As Anti-Castro As Mainstream Media's Portrayal?

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 5 a.m.

From the streets of Havana, Cuba, Loud & Clear talks with Andres Gomez, a leader of Cuban-Americans in Miami who have defied the mainstream media's caricature of their community by opposing the US blockade of Cuba. Gomez talks about his discussions with Fidel regarding Cuba's changing approach to the Cuban exile community in Miami; about the terrorist threats that he and others faced in Miami from CIA-backed right wing Cuban groups; about the impact that Fidel Castro had on Cuba and Cubans during the past six decades and about the prospects of U.S.-Cuban relations following Donald Trump's denunciations of Cuba following Fidel's death.

Fidel's initiative to provide free medical scholarships in Cuba for young people from working class communities in the United States is discussed in the second segment with Alexandra Skeeter. Coming from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Alexandra has been in Cuba studying medicine on full scholarship at Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine.

Fidel and Cuba's attitude toward religion and religious organizations is explored in the third segment by Dr. Enrique Aleman of the Quisicuaba Association which operates an inter-denominational outreach program to downtown Havana.