[HCDX] Carlos Franqui & Radio Rebelde

[Don Moore <donmooredxer@xxxxxxxxx>]

The New York Times today reports the death of Carlos Franqui, an exiled Cuban writer and opponent of Fidel Castro. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/world/americas/18franqui.html

The brief report does not mention his original connection with Castro. Carlos Franqui was the director of Radio Rebelde in its earliest days as a clandestine radio station in mountains of the Sierra Madre in eastern Cuba. An article I wrote on the history of Radio Rebelde can be found here.
http://www.pateplumaradio.com/central/cuba.html

Franqui's book "Diary of the Cuban Revolution" (New York: Viking Penguin. 1980) gives a lot of background on the early history of the station. 

Don Moore   ---   donmooredxer@xxxxxxxxx       

   Thinking outside the box isn't always enough. Sometimes you have to turn around and moon it.
Radio & Latin American website: http://www.pateplumaradio.com/


      
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