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Mixing Memory and Desire is a blog about Cuba, literature and other tropical diseases. It borrows its title from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
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It really is incredible that someone could be so insensitive as to call their record collection “firing squad.” This is not simply a Cuban thing; that’s the word for firing squad everywhere in Latin America, where innocents on both the right and left have been subjected to “paredon-style justice” from the powers that be.