Cuba Diaries
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Antonio Nuñez, an artist
Oliva, an artist in Pinar del Río
YeYe Perez, a professional blackface actor
Zenaida Castro Romeu, the conductor of Camerata Romeu
Lázaro Saavedra, an artist
Esterio Segura, an artist
Ángel Toirac, an artist
Other Cuban Friends and Acquaintances (see also Survivors)
Alfonse, aka El Ingles
Aurora, a book dealer
Báez, an official Cuban journalist
Barbara, aka our Elegguá, an unofficial guide who also works at Nick’s firm
Lilian and Saida Carrera, two very old sisters living in the Vedado area
Eddie, Reynaldo Gonzalez’s boyfriend
El Viejo Loco, an antique dealer
Nelson Figueroa, an architect living in Baracoa
Flora, Ladisel’s wife
Gloria, an artisan living in Baracoa
Ivan, an employee at Nick’s firm
Jaime, a gay friend
Ladisel, a tour guide in Cienfuegos and Varadero
Lola, an enterprising, voluble friend
Reny, a cultural liaison
Davide, an architect, uncle of Carlita
Naty Revuelta, Fidel’s ex-lover and the mother of his only daughter, Alina
Bibi Sebaya, an original resident of the Country Club area
Sergio, an Argentinean tour guide in Pinar del Río
Tomás, a lawyer living in Baracoa
Usnavy, a friend of Aurora’s
Arquitecto Vasquez, an architect who runs a gallery-cum-paladar
Foreign Friends and Acquaintances
Alex, a diplomat
Bernard, Nick’s second assistant
Carey, the Italian ambassador’s American wife
Fritz, Nick’s first assistant
Ana María Guevara, Che’s stepmother
Mike Kozak, principal officer of the U.S. Special Interests Section, the de facto U.S. ambassador; Sullivan was his predecessor
Lorna, an American, the ex-wife of Piñeiro (see Cuban Officials)
Marianne, a Canadian friend
Mark, an American anchorman who comes to Cuba on two occasions, the second time to cover the pope’s visit
Nicoletta, half-X——ian, half-Cuban, sent to Cuba by a Swedish firm
Querido Vecino!, the Tattlins’ neighbor Rolf, Danish cultural attaché
Vivarelli, an Italian film director and the only foreign member of the Cuban Communist Party
Survivors (see also Cuban Artists, Writers, and Intelligentsia and Other Cuban Friends and Acquaintances)
Natalia Bolivar Arostegui
Lilian and Saida Carrera
Dulce María Loynaz
Naty Revuelta
Bibi Sebaya
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