Lula, Cuba and the Irremovable Moral Leprosy

Revista Oeste

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In the summer of 1965, after three years as a cultural attaché in Belgium, the writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante returned to Cuba for his mother's funeral. But he would not stay long in the homeland. A few months later, he decided to return to Brussels (which he used to describe as his particular Siberia). He could not bear to live in Fidel Castro's Cuba — to which he would never return, having died in Belgian exile on February 21, 2005, at the a…