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Cuba: Athlete Forgotten

Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, Citizen Media, Ethnicity & Race, Health, Human Rights, Politics, Sport, Youth

“The [glorification of] the standing of our athletes in the medal count and categoris[ing] this ‘as an achievement of the revolution’” gets Ricardo Medina [1] thinking about “Rauler Castellanos Moreno, a black youth from Pinar del Rio who, despite his victory [in the 2007 Special Olympics] now lives in inhuman conditions.”