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'I Can't Just Do Nothing': A heroine out of Cuba.

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| March 11, 2002 | NORDLINGER, JAY | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

If she were any but an anti-Communist heroine, she might well be famous: the subject of documentaries, movies, songs. Her image might be on posters and T-shirts. The Nobel Committee would possibly murmur her name.

Actually, to call her an anti-Communist heroine is not quite right, because she is a pro-democracy, pro-freedom, pro-human rights heroine: and the tyranny she is fighting just happens to be Red. But her fame is confined to Cubans, Cuban-Americans, and the relative few who are interested in them.

Maritza Lugo Fernandez left Cuba for American shores on January 11. Her reception at the airport in Miami was tumultuous. For many years, she has been ...

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