Last week, I had the extreme pleasure of attending a talk given by Cuban dissident Alina Fernández, the daughter of Fidel Castro. Ms. Fernandez is, as are many Americans of Cuban descent, a vocal critic of her father’s regime.

Ms. Fernández delivered the account of Cuba’s upheaval during the early 1960s with humanity and even humor. In fact, she used a great deal of humor throughout, from marriage having become “a sport” in Cuba, to Castro’s program of distributing live chickens and pigs to apartment-dwellers to raise because the government couldn’t afford to do so. I was awestruck that someone could retain a measure of sanity after having been forced to watch televised executions from the age of 4, let alone lightheartedly relate the story. Full Piece