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Imaginary Persons, Imaginary Prisons
Shorris, Eark | December 20, 1986 issue

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Armando Fernando Valladares Pérez, the Cuban prison memoirist, has become the center of a controversy in which he plays no part. His life and history have been reduced to certainties; and he has suffered an ancient and perhaps honorable demise, death by abstraction. To discover the conspiracy against Perez, it is necessary to study the facts, many of which might seem, at first, unrelated to the case. To determine the meaning of his murder, it is important to start with what the victim said of himself. In his memoir, "Against All Hope," Perez said he served twenty-two years in Cuban prisons because he opposed communism.

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PEREZ, Armando Fernando Valladares; PRISONERS as authors; MURDER; CONSPIRACY; AGAINST All Hope: The Prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares (Book); COMMUNISM; CUBA
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