Volume 34, Number 11 · June 25, 1987
Miami: Exiles
By Joan Didion
'The Miami exiles are not anticommunist,' an exile named Carlos M. Luis said one night at dinner in Miami. It was about eleven o'clock, the preferred hour for dinner in those exile houses where Spanish manners still prevail, and there were at the table nine people, eight Cubans and me. There had been before Carlos Luis spoke a good deal of spirited argument. There had been a mounting rhythm of declamation and interruption. Now there was a silence. 'The Miami exiles are not anticommunist,' Carlos Luis repeated. 'I believe this. Anticommunism is not their motivation.'
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