I came across a headline in Miami
Herald about an acquaintance I have met many years ago in Cuba: Pedro Alvarez Borrego now a house-flipping capitalist. My first reaction was that Alvarez Borrego has always
been a capitalist at heart despite being a hotshot Cuban trade official. You've got to be one if you are working for the Trade Department regardless of your country's political persuasion. The first thing that came to my mind Operacion Pedro Pan, which ferried Cuban kids out of Castro's Cuba during the Cold War, precisely because of Pedro's first name. This is a case of Pedro Pan 2.0 with a capitalist twist. Read More ...
