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these gusano stories always have a big hole in the middle of the narrative, a lie of omission where they leave out misconduct that led to consequences and you're supposed to infer it was just capriciousness by the government
like we are supposed to assume the government just randomly selected a lawyer to have their career ruined for no reason, I guess
"In Cuba, we were upper-middle-class," Vivian said. "My grandfather was a bank vice president; my father worked for another bank and also wrote comedy sketches. We lived with extended family in a chic apartment. My sister and I had our own room; my brother had his own; we had a maid who lived in a small room behind the kitchen. She was a Spaniard and blind in one eye. I was a little scared of her."
My god I used to be super into Cracked. I wouldn’t have expected them to be communists but fuck
It really is eye opening going back to some of those old articles and realising just how heavy they are on the pro-US propaganda.
"I was just doing some weirdo fratboy hazing shit and the government said 'What the fuck' and took away my diploma! It was only 228 pounds of cherry jelly, jeez."