Alfredo Duran, who started as a sales associate at Gap and worked at six retailers over 15 years, left the industry two years ago. As a manager at clothing chain Mango, he was making $75,000 a year. But once the store closed, he had trouble finding another job in retail because no one wanted to pay
"Most of the upper classes in Cuba supported the revolution and right after 1959 helped it out paid their taxes, which they never paid," and made financial contributions, says Alfredo Duran, who was a college student from a prosperous Havana family. Society women even volunteered as nurses, he say
Date: Nov 26, 2016
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For the first time since 1959, Cuba faces life after Castro
In the Cuban exile community of south Florida, there was a more sceptical reaction. It would have been big news if he resigned today and called for democratic elections, Alfredo Duran, a Cuban-American lawyer and moderate exile leader noted yesterday. I wasnt worried about him being around after
Date: Feb 25, 2013
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What some people are saying about Washington's 50-year-old economic embargo ...
out Cuba. The embargo has nothing to do with foreign policy. It has everything to do with domestic presidential politics. Alfredo Duran, an exile who fought at the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 but stunned many of his fellow exiles in 2001 when he returned to Cuba and met with Castro.