ANTI-CASTRO

In Kristine McKenna’s “Behind the Iron Canvas” (Nov. 9), Museum of Contemporary Art curator Connie Butler is quoted as saying that Miami’s Cuban American community is vehemently anti-Castro “perhaps because they’ve been unable to forget how terrible conditions in the country were when they left.”

Ms. Butler leads us to assume that it is rightful to forget. I as a Cuban American will not forget or ignore my relatives and friends jailed as political prisoners for simply speaking out against the apparatus of Cuba’s totalitarian state. Innocent citizens beaten, starved and threatened for voicing an opinion, a situation that continues to exist today.

JULIO BORDAS

Santa Barbara