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Reinaldo Arenas in France in June 1988. The writer believed homosexuality began to flourish in Cuba as a protest against Fidel Castro’s regime. (Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS

‘Before Night Falls’: Reinaldo Arenas breaks down (in) Fidel Castro’s Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas’s memoir reveals the contradiction of a revolutionary society ruled by an autocrat

  • Percy Zvomuya
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