That episode prompted a response from the Bush administration, which has made no secret of its disdain for the Castro brothers.
“We condemn the regime’s violent attack on peaceful concert-goers and arrest of Mr Aguila,” Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who left Cuba as a boy with his family in 1960, said of Gorki. Gutierrez said the authorities’ actions violated the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Raul Castro signed just days after replacing Fidel in February.
Left unsaid by Gutierrez was whether he had ever listened to Gorki’s music.
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