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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist
Saladrigas managed to save $400 -- by mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, and waxing cars -- to help his parents get settled when they arrived from Cuba in 1962. Tragically, his mother then developed cancer, and Saladrigas dropped out of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
member of the HAA board since 1995. Alvarez-Bjelland emigrated with her family from Cuba to Miami in 1962 and has lived for the past 25 years in Norway, home to her husband, Christian Bjelland (MBA ’78). She has worked in marketing and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
brother-in-law. Gordon works with partners like Benedetti and the Kempinski to plan events and conferences at the hotel; today, they are discussing a joint US road show to sell Cuba as a travel destination to luxury and corporate travel... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Ink: Miami’s Dark Neon Era, the Language of Success, and Getting Psyched Up
generations of Cuban refugees fought for control of the drug trade in Miami.” Classic Havana Nocturne How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T.J. English “All these mobsters are dead, but the author, through... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
artist, who was detained down in Cuba 2014, 2015, and this was just at the time that Cuba and the US were looking to normalize relations. And we got reporters down there. We tried to get that story into the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
Born in Cuba and raised in Puerto Rico, Gerardo "Gerry" Lopez fondly recalls the first movie he saw in the United States, in 1977: Star Wars. "Wow, the special effects and flying through space—it was great!" says Lopez (MBA 1984),... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
off that there was never a true rematch to go into Cuba and take out Fidel Castro. There were grown men who are trained by the CIA in the 1960s waiting every day to go back and take out Fidel Castro and execute the guy and take back their... View Details