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By Martirena (Posted Sep 01, 2009)

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Sale “For the time being, it’s only 7 bases, but, if it were up to me, I would sell them the whole country.”

Alfredo Martirena Hernández was born in 1965 in Santa Clara, Cuba.  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).


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