a great interview with my dad, Max Lesnik, the real Man of Two Havanas…

Here’s an excerpt from Field Notes 2: Miami by Stephen Kimber

Lesnik is about to tell me about how he’d first come to know one of those Miami terrorist “heroes”—Orlando Bosch—in Havana in the days before the revolution, but then he looks at his watch. He has to go. His mother, who is 100, is not well and he needs to go see her, he says. He hands me a DVD of The Man of Two Havanas, an award-winning but little seen documentary his daughter Viven Lesnik Weisman made about him two years ago. “It’s all in there,” he says simply as he makes his way out the door.

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So Florida went blue . But we still have those congressmen (and woman ) and you know who I am talking about. Perhaps if Joe Garcia and Raul Martinez would have been more on board with Obama they would have prevailed . Obama did better in their districts than the challengers which means the voters were impressed with Obama and the challengers chose not to take a ride on his coattails . Wrong choice . Now we pay and so does Cuba . Good news is the old guard will have 0 traction with the new administration . Vivien