The Cuba Nostalgia convention this past weekend was filled with many magic moments, each one providing me a booster shot of cubanidad.
Most of them involved meeting the brains, and the hearts, behind some of my favorite Cuba blogs and Web sites:
Bilingual in the Boonies (Is there a baby in your life? Buy them something cute at Carrie's store.)
Blog for Cuba (Ziva had her own magic moment here.)
http://cubanamericanpundits.blogspot.com/
My Big, Fat, Cuban Family (Need a Cuba t-shirt with just a little bit of attitude? Shop at Marta's store.)
To each one of you, you humbled me with your comments about Uncommon Sense, and the role you think I am playing in our common struggle. I do hope you are right, but know that your encouragement is invaluable to me. To each one of you, I am your friend, I am your brother.
Another magic moment was the chance to hangout at the Babalú booth and eavesdrop on author Humberto Fontova as he told the stories behind the stories in his newest book, "Exposing the Real Che Guevara And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him," which I finished earlier this morning. The man is a human bullshit detector about Castro, Che and the Cuban Revolution, and he has done the research to prove his debunking of so many foolish, dangerous myths about Cuba today, and Cuba for the past 48 years. (Buy the book here.)
As I told more than one person this weekend, perhaps ad nauseam, I believe that history is on our side, on the side of those Cubans fighting for liberty. We in the United States are not on the front lines, like our brothers on the island, in and out of prison, but we each have a key role to play — whether it's Val and Henry with their passion for the fight or Marta, whose sweet stories about her family remind us that all Cuban families are "big and fat" with love. Our support, our willingness to speak up, and speak for the struggle for Cuban liberty, are an essential weapons in freedom's arsenal.
Keep the faith, my friends. Do not get discouraged. Victory is on the way, maybe much sooner than we hope.
Who knows, maybe this will be the last year we say, "Next year, in Cuba!"
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