Variety of Cuban Stories
The CBS project of producing a miniseries based on the Elian Gonzalez saga is not only crass, it’s revolting (“On to the Making of Elian, the Miniseries,” by Dana Calvo, Feb. 21).
With so many Cuban stories full of passion and real-life drama there is no need to produce this project. How about the life of Armando Valladares? His biography, “Against All Hope,” is a wonderful and inspiring book. Or, perhaps, the life of Reynaldo Arenas, the Cuban writer who, suffering with AIDS, committed suicide in New York after writing his memoirs, “Before Night Falls.” Or why not the life of Dr. Alberto Fibla, a man who was jailed in Cuba for more than 25 years and was the subject of a front-page article in The Times a number of years ago?
CBS is wrong in pursuing this story. Leave Elian Gonzalez alone.
By the way, the interruptions of the Miami City Council “at about 3 p.m. for swigs of thick Cuban coffee” are called coffee breaks. Perhaps your writer never took one.
RAUL DE CARDENAS
Los Angeles
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