Jorge Antonio eventually paid his baccarat debt to Tropicana; and Armando Freyre, Tropicana’s lawyer, returned the bag of jewels to him in Spain. “I’ll tell you, when I was holding those jewels I could not help but remember that time Martín and I went to Argentina during our honeymoon,” said Ofelia on that rainy night. “Things were so bad in that country that even the taxi doors were held together with rope. And I wondered, if Evita was able to buy all those jewels, why couldn’t she do more for Argentina’s poor?” I was tempted to point out that Cuba in the 1950s was also a place of poverty,
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