Cuban Freedom Fighter
May 28, 2016
Carlos Eire, Yale professor of history and religious studies, National Book Award winner, and author of Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy, grieves for his native Cuba under the Castro regime— a socialist Jurassic Park. Evacuated to the U.S. during Operation Peter Pan in 1961, Eire shares his frustration and disappointment over the unrelenting repression of ordinary Cubans, President Obama’s failure to demand human rights concessions from Castro’s regime, and the million dollar tourist industry naively propping up the failed state.
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Music of Freedom
May 28, 2016
Arturo Sandoval, 10-time Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter and composer, and recent recipient of an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the University of Notre Dame, shares how he discovered jazz, was jailed in Cuba for listening to the “voice of the enemies,” and how it changed his life. A renowned jazz innovator, with more than 40 albums of varying styles, Sandoval celebrates individuality and the opportunity he found in America after defecting from Cuba.
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Latin American Pulse
May 28, 2016
Dr. Alejandro Chafuen, president of Atlas Network, analyzes the political situation across Latin America. Chafuen celebrates Latin Americans’ growing rejection of institutional populism, while lamenting the tragic situation in Venezuela, Chile’s retrogression, and the United States’ failure to challenge the Cuban dictatorship.
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Bill Frezza 
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