Hearing Fornieles say this, Alicia cupped her hand over the receiver and pointed out the window. “Mira, la sección de interés,” she whispered slyly. Indeed, within a stone’s throw of her balcony stood the imposing stone and glass rectangle that houses the United States Interests Section in Havana. Up until that moment I had somehow not noticed it, but there it was—the hub of the exile drama, the symbol of the conflict between Cuba and the United States, or more aptly, between Cubans in Cuba and Cubans in the United States. La sección de interés, “the interests section” as it is called in Cuba,
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