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The three Cubas and the two Americas

11/3/2020, 1:21:53 AM


From Palm Beach, a Cuban painter laughs at his friends when they tell him about the danger of a “communist” (that is, Biden's) victory because “socialism is physically impossible in the United States”

A man smokes a cigar while wearing an "I voted!" Sticker this week in Miami.Rebecca Blackwell / AP

The electoral date finally arrived.

One feels that, amid so much expectation and with so much political tension in the environment, you need to take a deep breath and look a little further.

Visiting the studio apartment of the painter Ramón Alejandro in Miami is good therapy.

This wise, polyglot, and humorous man, who spent most of his life in Paris, is well acquainted with the three Cubas and the two Americas (excuse me for being incorrect in naming the United States).

And it is calm.

This Monday he went on a field trip to the Keys with some enthusiastic friends of Donald Trump.

He has already voted, with little enthusiasm ...

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