Hopes and challenges of modern nation can be seen in story of local Cuban dissident’s struggle

One Woman’s Struggle for Freedom in Castro’s Cuba

A slim Cuban woman speaks from a wheelchair at the front of the room. The woman speaks softly for 10 minutes in Spanish, pausing at intervals to wait for her translator’s words. Her left arm ends at the wrist, and she cradles it in her right hand. “If the Cuban people are going to risk their…