Tuesday, October 28th, Armando Valladares gives a talk titled "Against All Hope" at 4:00pm in 028 McIver as part of Human Rights Week.
Armando Valladares spent 22 years as a Cuban political prisoner and was the U.S. Ambassador before the United Nations Human Rights Commission during 1987-1992. He wrote a memoir about his experiences as a political prisoner titled Against All Hope:
"Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment" -http://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198
Human Rights Week is sponosored by UNCG Department of History, the UNCG History Club, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the UNCG Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and the Human Rights Research Network (HRRN): http://www.uncg.edu/cci/HRRN/
Armando Valladares spent 22 years as a Cuban political prisoner and was the U.S. Ambassador before the United Nations Human Rights Commission during 1987-1992. He wrote a memoir about his experiences as a political prisoner titled Against All Hope:
"Against All Hope is Armando Valladares' account of over twenty years in Fidel Castro's tropical gulag as a result of his philosophical and religious opposition to communism. He gives a picture of the Cuba that he lived in and tells of how his deep Christian faith kept him from abandoning hope during the most evil treatment" -http://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Hope-Memoir-Castros/dp/1893554198
Human Rights Week is sponosored by UNCG Department of History, the UNCG History Club, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the UNCG Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, and the Human Rights Research Network (HRRN): http://www.uncg.edu/cci/HRRN/
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Cuba is one of those places that is very interesting for many reasons. The reasons of course are sad, but none the less intriguing. I would have love to hear his take on Cuba, especially since he lived at a crucial time with total dictation.
My mother taught this boy from Cuba, and he would say that the only thing he missed from Cuba was his mother, nothing else.
People say its like an eerie time warp...nice to visit, but depressing to live in.
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