Photos Miss Cuban Toll
There are approximately 100,000 faces of the Cuban Revolution living in exile here in Los Angeles, and I am sure you have offended many of them (“Putting a Human Face on Revolution,” by Lorenza Munoz, Jan. 28).
Photographer Roberto Salas nostalgically captured the faces of Fidel, Che and Camilo Cienfuegos as “wonderful people.” He failed to capture the consequences of the revolution once it took a wrong turn, no longer being for the people, but for a new dictator far worse than the previous Batista.
What about the faces of the 1 million men, women and children forced to leave their homeland? The hundreds of innocents executed by firing squad? The thousands of political prisoners? The 100,000 who left during the Mariel boat lift? The thousands who perished in makeshift rafts desperately trying to reach freedom?
It disgusts me that Salas has chosen to live a privileged life in Cuba all these years while millions suffer around him. Apparently he only sees what he wants to see.
SANTIAGO A. MARTIN, Santa Ana
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